English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 109
After breakfast was over, the ogre called out: “Wife, wife, bring me my golden harp.”
Who acts: breakfast, ogre · What happens: be, call out, bring · To what, where: ogre, golden harp, me · 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 (breakfast, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 breakfast | case |
| 2 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | obl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 over | cop |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 breakfast | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 breakfast | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ogre | det |
| 7 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ogre | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 called | compound:prt |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wife | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wife | punct |
| 12 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ogre | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wife | punct |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Wife | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wife | punct |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 bring | obj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 harp | nmod:poss |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 harp | amod |
| 20 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 bring | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | breakfast not said here | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | the ogre not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | infinitive | the ogre | my golden harp | me | after breakfast | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination harp=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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