The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 42

When breakfast was over he said to the giant: “Now I will show you a fine trick.

Who acts: breakfast · What happens: be, show · To what, where: breakfast, fine trick, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (breakfast), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 When	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	cop
4	over	over	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 breakfast	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 giant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 show	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 show	punct
12	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 show	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 show	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 show	aux
15	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 show	iobj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 trick	det
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 trick	amod
19	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 show	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 When	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	past	breakfast	breakfast not said here				to the giant; say property	tree rules
2	show in a quote	future	breakfast	a fine trick	you		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient trick=Topic

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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