English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 37

A man picked him out and bade him assist him in making a bridge over the river; and how do you think he was doing it?

Who acts: man, you, boy · What happens: pick out, bade, assist, make, think, do · To what, where: boy, bridge, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you, boy), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picked	nsubj
3	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 picked	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 picked	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bade	cc
7	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 picked	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bade	obj
9	assist	assist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bade	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 assist	obj
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 making	mark
12	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 assist	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bridge	det
14	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 making	obj
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 making	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 think	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 think	cc
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 think	advmod
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 think	aux
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 think	nsubj
23	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 picked	advcl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 doing	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 doing	aux
26	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 think	ccomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 doing	obj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	pick out	past	a man	boy			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	bade	past	a man not said here	boy			tree rules
3	assist	infinitive	a man not said here		boy		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
4	make	gerund	a man not said here	a bridge		the river	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bridge=Product
5	think speech: other	present · do-support	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	do	past · progressive	boy	bridge			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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