English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 6

As soon as the waggoner heard that poor Dick had no father or mother, and saw by his ragged clothes that he could not be worse off than he was, he told him he might go if he would, so off they set together.

Who acts: waggoner, poor Dick, Dick, waggon · What happens: hear, have, see, not be, be, tell · To what, where: father, waggoner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waggoner, poor Dick, Dick, waggon), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 heard	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 heard	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 waggoner	det
5	waggoner	waggoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Dick	amod
9	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	ccomp
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 father	det
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 mother	cc
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 father	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 clothes	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 clothes	nmod:poss
20	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 clothes	amod
21	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	17 saw	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 worse	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 worse	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 worse	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 worse	advmod
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 worse	cop
27	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 saw	conj
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 worse	compound:prt
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	31 was	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 was	nsubj
31	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 worse	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 told	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	nsubj
34	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	iobj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 go	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 go	aux
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 told	ccomp
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 would	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 would	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 go	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 set	punct
43	so	so	ADV	_	46 set	advmod
44	off	off	ADP	_	46 set	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 set	nsubj
46	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
47	together	together	ADV	_	46 set	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the waggoner			soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	past	poor Dick	no father or mother			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient
3	see	past	the waggoner not said here			by Dick's ragged clothes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not is	could	Dick			bad property	tree rules
5	be	past	Dick				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past	Dick		waggoner		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	go	might	Dick				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	set	present	waggon			together property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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