The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 28
“Though here you lodge with me this night, You shall not see the morning light; My club shall dash your brains out quite.”
Who acts: you, club · What happens: lodge, not see, dash out · To what, where: morning light, brains
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, club), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 2 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 lodge | mark |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Though | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 lodge | nsubj |
| 5 | lodge | lodge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 lodge | obl |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lodge | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lodge | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 light | det |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 light | compound |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 dash | punct |
| 19 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 club | nmod:poss |
| 20 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dash | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 dash | aux |
| 22 | dash | dash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 see | conj |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 brains | nmod:poss |
| 24 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 dash | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 dash | advmod |
| 26 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 dash | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lodge in a quote | present | you | night | with Jack | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | |||
| 2 | not see in a quote | shall | You | the morning light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | dash out in a quote | shall | My club | your brains | out property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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