English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 37

The prince replied that it was a pity creditors should be so cruel, and said: “Go bury the dead, and let his creditors come to my lodging, and there their debts shall be paid.”

Who acts: prince, money, creditors · What happens: reply, be, say, go, bury, let · To what, where: dead, lodging, debts · 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, money, creditors), 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 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 cruel	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cruel	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cruel	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 creditors	det
8	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 creditors	compound
9	creditors	creditor	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cruel	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cruel	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 cruel	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 cruel	advmod
13	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 replied	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Go	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 Go	punct
19	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
20	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Go	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dead	det
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bury	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 let	cc
25	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 Go	parataxis
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 creditors	nmod:poss
27	creditors	creditor	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 come	nsubj
28	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 let	ccomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 lodging	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 lodging	nmod:poss
31	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 paid	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 paid	cc
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 paid	expl
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 debts	nmod:poss
36	debts	debt	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 paid	nsubj:pass
37	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 paid	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 paid	aux:pass
39	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 Go	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 Go	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the prince				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	should · past	money			cruel property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the prince not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go in a quote	infinitive					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	bury in a quote	infinitive		the dead			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme
6	let in a quote	infinitive					tree rules
7	come in a quote	present	prince's creditors		my lodging		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodging=Initial_Location
8	pay in a quote	shall · passive		creditors's debts	there		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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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