English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 84

The King asked the great bird, Did he see the great castle? and the bird said: “Yes, I came from there where it now is.”

Who acts: King, bird, castle · What happens: ask, see, say, come, be · To what, where: great bird, great castle · 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, bird, castle), 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 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
8	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 castle	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 castle	amod
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bird	det
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
21	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	24 came	discourse
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Yes	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 there	case
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 came	obl
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 is	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 is	nsubj
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 is	advmod
30	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 came	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the King		the great bird		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient clause=Topic
2	see	past · do-support	King	the great castle			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the bird				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	past	the bird = bird				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from there=Initial_Location
5	be in a quote	present	castle			now	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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