English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 105
But Jack wasn't there, luckily, and the ogre's wife said: “There you are again with your fee-fi-fo-fum.
Who acts: Jack, wife, you · What happens: not be, say, be · 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, wife, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 there | cc |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 there | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 there | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 luckily | punct |
| 7 | luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 5 there | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 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 | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 are | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 are | punct |
| 17 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 are | expl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 are | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 are | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 fum | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 fum | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fee | fee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fi | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 fee | punct |
| 25 | fi | fi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fum | nsubj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 fi | punct |
| 27 | fo | fo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fum | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 fum | punct |
| 29 | fum | fum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 are | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Jack | luckily, there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the ogre's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | does in a quote | present | you | there | again | with your fo fum | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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