English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 19

So at last they went to a mighty warlock and asked him what they should do.

Who acts: Heugh · What happens: go, ask, do · To what, where: last, Spindleston · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heugh), 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	_	5 went	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 warlock	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 warlock	det
8	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 warlock	amod
9	warlock	warlock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asked	cc
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	iobj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 do	obj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Heugh		last	to a mighty warlock	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to warlock=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	Heugh not said here	Spindleston			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	should	Heugh				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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