English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 22

They went in and found it was a king's castle, who had two sons, and one of them was sickening away to death and no one could find out what ailed him.

Who acts: sisters, lodging, castle, one · What happens: go in, find, be, have, sicken away, find out · To what, where: castle, two sons, sheep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, lodging, castle, one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 found	cc
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 castle	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 castle	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 castle	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 king	case
11	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 castle	acl:relcl
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 sons	nummod
16	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sickening	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sickening	cc
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 sickening	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 one	nmod
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sickening	aux
23	sickening	sicken	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 went	advcl
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 sickening	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 death	case
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sickening	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 find	cc
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 find	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 find	aux
31	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sickening	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 find	compound:prt
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 ailed	nsubj
34	ailed	ail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 find	ccomp
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 ailed	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go in	past	sisters = sister			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	sisters = sister not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	lodging	a king's castle		tree rules
4	have	past	a king's castle	two sons		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
5	sicken away	past · progressive	one of sisters		to death; away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	find out	could	no one			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	ail	past		sheep		vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient he=Experiencer

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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