English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 36

The prince asked the reason of it, and was told that they had arrested a corpse for several large sums of money which the deceased owed when he died.

Who acts: prince · What happens: ask, tell, arrest, owe, die, sum · To what, where: reason, people, money · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (prince), 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 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	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	5 reason	det
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reason	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux:pass
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 asked	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 arrested	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 arrested	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 arrested	aux
15	arrested	arrest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 told	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 corpse	det
17	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arrested	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 sums	case
19	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sums	amod
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sums	amod
21	sums	sum	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 arrested	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 money	case
23	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sums	nmod
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 owed	nsubj:pass
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 owed	det
26	deceased	decease	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 owed	aux:pass
27	owed	owe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 money	acl:relcl
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 died	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 died	nsubj
30	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 owed	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the prince	the reason of reason		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic
3	arrest	past · perfect · passive		people	for several large sums of money	tree rules
4	owe	past · passive		money		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
5	die	past	prince			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	sum			money		nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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