English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 13

“Oh, you look the proper sort of chap to sell cows,” said the man; “I wonder if you know how many beans make five.”

Who acts: you, man · What happens: look, sell, say, wonder, know, make · To what, where: proper sort, cows, many beans, five, chap · 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 (you, man), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 look	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sort	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sort	amod
8	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 chap	case
10	chap	chap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sort	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sell	mark
12	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sort	acl
13	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sell	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 wonder	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 wonder	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 wonder	nsubj
22	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 know	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 know	nsubj
25	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 make	advcl
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 many	advmod
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beans	amod
28	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 know	obj
29	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 wonder	ccomp
30	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 make	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	you	the proper sort of chap	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sort=Attribute
2	sell in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	cows	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wonder speech: ask in a quote	present	the man = man		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	many beans	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bean=Stimulus
6	make in a quote	present		five	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset five=Product
7	sort in a quote			chap	nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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