English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 66

And the little thing told him: “It will be better for you to let me go with you; maybe I shall do some good to you some time without you knowing it.”

Who acts: little thing, It, King · What happens: tell, be, let, go, do, know · To what, where: King, little thing, some, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little thing, It, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 better	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 better	punct
9	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 better	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 better	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 better	cop
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 told	ccomp
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 let	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 let	nsubj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 let	mark
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 better	csubj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 go	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 do	punct
22	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	25 do	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 do	nsubj
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	conj
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 do	obj
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 some	amod
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 do	obl
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 time	det
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obl:unmarked
32	without	without	SCONJ	_	34 knowing	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 knowing	nsubj
34	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 do	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 knowing	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 better	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the little thing		King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is in a quote	future	It				good property	tree rules
3	let in a quote	to-infinitive	King	the little thing = thing				tree rules
4	go in a quote	infinitive	the little thing = thing not said here				with King	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary
5	do in a quote	shall	the little thing = thing	some	King	time	maybe property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Eventuality
6	know in a quote	gerund	King	trouble				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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