English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 34
He told his mother that the time was now come for him to go away upon his travels also; so she requested him to take the can to the well for water, that she might make a cake for him.
Who acts: brother, time, mother · What happens: tell, come, go away, travel, request, take · To what, where: mother, brother, well, cake · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, time, mother), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 come | advmod |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | advcl |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 18 travels | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 travels | nmod:poss |
| 18 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | advcl |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 travels | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 requested | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 requested | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 requested | nsubj |
| 23 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 requested | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 take | mark |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 requested | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 well | det |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 well | aux |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 well | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 well | det |
| 31 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 take | obj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 water | case |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 take | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 make | punct |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 make | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 make | nsubj |
| 37 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 make | aux |
| 38 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 take | conj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 cake | det |
| 40 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 make | obj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 make | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | brother | brother's mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the time | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go away | to-infinitive | brother | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | travel | present | brother not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | request | past | mother | brother | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive | mother not said here | the well | for water | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent well=Theme for water=Beneficiary | |||
| 7 | make | might | mother | a cake | for brother | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cake=Material for he=Beneficiary |
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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