English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 5

So at last her eldest brother went to the Warlock Merlin and told him all the case, and asked him if he knew where Burd Ellen was.

Who acts: Childe, Burd · What happens: go, tell, ask, know, be · To what, where: Warlock Merlin, case, Childe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Childe, Burd), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	6 brother	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brother	amod
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brother	nmod:poss
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 Merlin	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Merlin	det
10	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Merlin	compound
11	Merlin	Merlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 case	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 case	det
17	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asked	cc
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	iobj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 knew	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knew	nsubj
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 asked	advcl
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 was	advmod
26	Burd	Burd	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 was	nsubj
27	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Burd	flat
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 knew	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past				the Warlock Merlin	at Burd's last eldest brother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to merlin=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past		all case	Childe			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient case=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	past			Childe			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	know a condition, not said to happen	past	Childe					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be	past	Burd					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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