English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 82

And the King asked them; “Did they see the fine castle?” and all the birds answered, No. “Well,” said the King, “where is the great bird?”

Who acts: King, fowls, birds · What happens: ask, see, answer, say, be · To what, where: fowls, fine castle, No., great bird · 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, fowls, birds), 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	_	4 asked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
8	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 castle	det
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 castle	amod
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 answered	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 birds	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 birds	det
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 answered	nsubj
20	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 No.	punct
22	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	20 answered	obj
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
24	Well	well	INTJ	_	27 said	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Well	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 Well	punct
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 No.	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 King	det
29	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bird	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 where	punct
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 bird	advmod
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 bird	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bird	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bird	amod
36	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 King	acl:relcl
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	36 bird	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 No.	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the King		fowls = fowl	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	past · do-support	fowls = fowl	the fine castle		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus
3	answer speech: assert	past	all birds	No.		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent no.=Eventuality
4	say speech: ask	past	the King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present		the great bird		tree rules

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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