English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 111
Then he said: “Sing!” and the golden harp sang most beautifully.
Who acts: ogre, Sing · What happens: say, sing · 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, Sing), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sing | punct |
| 6 | Sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sang | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sing | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 harp | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 harp | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 harp | amod |
| 12 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Sing | conj |
| 13 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 beautifully | advmod |
| 15 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 13 sang | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | ogre | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | Sing and the golden harp | beautifully property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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