English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 14
“Two in each hand and one in your mouth,” says Jack, as sharp as a needle.
Who acts: Two · What happens: say · To what, where: hand · 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 (Two), 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 | _ | 2 Two | punct |
| 2 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 says | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 hand | det |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 one | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hand | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mouth | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hand | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sharp | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sharp | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 sharp | advmod |
| 17 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 says | ccomp |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 needle | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 needle | det |
| 20 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sharp | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Two | each hand | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in hand=Manner |
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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