English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 67

After the repast was concluded, she told him she had a task for him.

Who acts: cap · What happens: conclude, tell, have · To what, where: repast, Jack, task · 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 (cap), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	5 concluded	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 repast	det
3	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 concluded	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 concluded	aux:pass
5	concluded	conclude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 told	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 concluded	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 task	det
13	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 task	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	conclude	past · passive		the repast			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	cap		Jack		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	past	cap	a task		for Jack	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=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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