English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 106
Why of course it's the laddie you caught last night that I've broiled for your breakfast.
Who acts: course, you, I · What happens: be, catch, broil · To what, where: laddie, last night
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 (course, you, I), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 laddie | case |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 of | fixed |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laddie | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 laddie | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 laddie | det |
| 7 | laddie | laddie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | obl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 caught | nsubj |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laddie | acl:relcl |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 night | amod |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 broiled | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 broiled | nsubj |
| 14 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 broiled | aux |
| 15 | broiled | broil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 night | acl:relcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 breakfast | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 18 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 broiled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | course | of the laddie | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | you | the laddie not said here | night | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laddie=Theme | |||
| 3 | broil | present · perfect | I | last night | for your breakfast | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Patient for breakfast=Beneficiary |
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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