English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 18

“Ah! you don't know what these beans are,” said the man; “if you plant them over-night, by morning they grow right up to the sky.”

Who acts: you, beans, man · What happens: not know, be, say, plant, grow · To what, where: beans · 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, beans, 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	_	7 know	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 know	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 know	ccomp
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 beans	det
10	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 what	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 what	cop
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 grow	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 grow	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 plant	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 plant	nsubj
21	plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 grow	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 plant	obj
23	over-night	over-night	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 plant	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 plant	punct
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 morning	case
26	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grow	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 grow	nsubj
28	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
29	right	right	ADV	_	30 up	advmod
30	up	up	ADP	_	33 sky	case
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 sky	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sky	det
33	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grow	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not know in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a in a quote	present	this beans				tree rules
3	say speech: express	past	the man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	plant a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	beans = bean		over-night property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	grow in a quote	present	beans = bean		morning	up the sky	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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