English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 122

So he called out: “Mother! mother! bring me an axe, bring me an axe.”

Who acts: Jack, mother · What happens: call out, bring · To what, where: Mother, axe, Jack · 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, mother), 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	_	3 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 called	compound:prt
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Mother	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 Mother	punct
7	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 mother	punct
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bring	nsubj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 mother	punct
11	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Mother	acl:relcl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 bring	obj
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 axe	det
14	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bring	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bring	punct
16	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bring	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 bring	obj
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 axe	det
19	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bring	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 bring	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 Mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	call out speech: express	past	Jack	Mother		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring in a quote	infinitive	mother	a axe	Jack	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination axe=Theme
3	bring in a quote	infinitive	mother not said here	a axe	Jack	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination axe=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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