English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 20

“Yes, that is so, and if it doesn't turn out to be true you can have your cow back.”

Who acts: that, sky, you · What happens: be, not turn out, have back · To what, where: cow

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 (that, sky, you), 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	_	20 have	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 so	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 so	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 so	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	20 have	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turn	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 turn	cc
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 turn	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 turn	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 turn	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 turn	advmod
13	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 so	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 turn	compound:prt
15	to	to	PART	_	17 true	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 true	cop
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 turn	xcomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cow	nmod:poss
22	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
23	back	back	ADV	_	20 have	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that		so property	tree rules
2	not turn out a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	sky			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	to-infinitive	sky not said here		true property	tree rules
4	have back in a quote	can	you	your cow		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=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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