English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 102
“Do you, my dearie?” says the ogre's wife.
Who acts: wife · What happens: do, say · To what, where: you · 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 (wife), 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 | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | ccomp |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Do | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dearie | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dearie | dearie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ogre | det |
| 11 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 ogre | case |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | present | the ogre's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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: «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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