English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 24

When the magistrates heard of this they made a declaration he should henceforth be termed

Who acts: magistrates · What happens: hear, make, term · To what, where: declaration, Jack

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magistrates), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magistrates	det
3	magistrates	magistrate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	advcl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 declaration	det
10	declaration	declaration	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 termed	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 termed	aux
13	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	_	15 termed	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 termed	aux:pass
15	termed	term	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 declaration	acl:relcl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the magistrates		of this	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus
2	make	past	magistrates = magistrate	a declaration		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset declaration=Product
3	term	should · passive		Jack	henceforth property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result

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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