English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 71
The King came out, and asked him his business; and Jack told him all from beginning to end.
Who acts: King, Jack · What happens: come out, ask, tell · To what, where: business, King, beginning · 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 (King, Jack), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 business | nmod:poss |
| 10 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Jack | cc |
| 13 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 told | nsubj |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 him | det |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 beginning | case |
| 18 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 end | case |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the King | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | King's business | King | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Jack | King | from beginning; to end | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to end=Recipient |
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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