English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 108

So the ogre sat down to the breakfast and ate it, but every now and then he would mutter: “Well, I could have sworn----” and he'd get up and search the larder and the cupboards, and everything, only luckily he didn't think of the copper.

Who acts: ogre · What happens: sit down, eat, mutter, swear, get up, search · To what, where: breakfast, everything, larder · 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 (ogre), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ogre	det
3	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 breakfast	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 breakfast	det
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ate	cc
10	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ate	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mutter	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 mutter	cc
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 mutter	det
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 mutter	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mutter	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 mutter	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 mutter	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 mutter	aux
20	mutter	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sat	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 sworn	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 sworn	punct
23	Well	well	INTJ	_	28 sworn	discourse
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Well	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 sworn	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 sworn	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 sworn	aux
28	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 mutter	parataxis
29	----	----	PUNCT	_	28 sworn	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 sworn	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 get	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 get	nsubj
33	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 get	aux
34	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sworn	conj
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 get	compound:prt
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 search	cc
37	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 get	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 larder	det
39	larder	larder	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 search	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 cupboards	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 cupboards	det
42	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 larder	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 everything	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 everything	cc
45	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	28 sworn	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 think	punct
47	only	only	ADV	_	48 luckily	advmod
48	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	52 think	advmod
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 think	nsubj
50	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 think	aux
51	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 think	advmod
52	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sworn	conj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 copper	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 copper	det
55	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 think	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the ogre			to the breakfast; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past	the ogre not said here	breakfast			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	mutter speech: assert	would	ogre		now; then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	swear in a quote	could · perfect	ogre	everything			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	get up	would	ogre				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	search	infinitive	ogre not said here	the larder and the cupboards			vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent larder=Location
7	not think speech: other	past · do-support	ogre			of the copper; luckily property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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