English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 40

This being agreed upon, the next morning they set forward on their journey together, when, as they were riding out of the town, an old woman called after the prince, saying, “He has owed me twopence these seven years; pray pay me as well as the rest.”

Who acts: debts, prince · What happens: agree, set forward, ride out, call, say, owe · To what, where: This, journey, town, old woman, me · 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 (debts, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 agreed	nsubj:pass
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 agreed	aux:pass
3	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	3 agreed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 set	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 morning	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obl:unmarked
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 set	nsubj
10	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 agreed	parataxis
11	forward	forward	ADV	_	10 set	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 journey	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 journey	nmod:poss
14	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obl
15	together	together	ADV	_	10 set	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 riding	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 riding	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 riding	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 riding	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 riding	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 riding	aux
22	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 set	advcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 town	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 town	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 town	det
26	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 riding	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 woman	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 woman	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 woman	amod
30	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 town	appos
31	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 woman	acl
32	after	after	ADP	_	34 prince	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 prince	det
34	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 called	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 saying	punct
36	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 riding	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 owed	punct
38	“	"	PUNCT	_	41 owed	punct
39	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 owed	nsubj
40	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 owed	aux
41	owed	owe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 saying	ccomp
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 owed	iobj
43	twopence	twopence	ADP	_	46 years	case
44	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	46 years	det
45	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 years	nummod
46	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 owed	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 pray	punct
48	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 agreed	parataxis
49	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 pray	xcomp
50	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 pay	iobj
51	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	49 pay	advmod
52	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	51 as	fixed
53	as	as	ADP	_	55 rest	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 rest	det
55	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 pay	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 pray	punct
57	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	gerund · passive		This					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic
2	set forward	present	debts = debt			debts's journey	morning	forward, together property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on journey=Destination
3	ride out	past · progressive	debts = debt	the town					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme
4	call	participle		a old woman not said here			after the prince		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	gerund	debts = debt not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	owe in a quote	present · perfect	prince		me		year		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	pray in a quote	infinitive							vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	pay in a quote	infinitive			me			as the rest	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Asset
9	journey		debts = debt						nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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