English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 10
“Good morning to you,” said Jack, and wondered how he knew his name.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: say, wonder, know, name · To what, where: name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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 | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 morning | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wondered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wondered | cc |
| 12 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 knew | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wondered | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 name | nmod:poss |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knew | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | Jack not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | know | past | Jack | Jack's name | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | name | Jack | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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