English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 21

“Right,” says Jack, and hands him over Milky-white's halter and pockets the beans.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: say, hand · To what, where: beans, Jack, halter · 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), 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	_	5 says	punct
2	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Right	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Right	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hands	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hands	cc
9	hands	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hands	iobj
11	over	over	ADP	_	16 halter	case
12	Milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 white	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Milky	punct
14	white	white	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 halter	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 white	case
16	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hands	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pockets	cc
18	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 halter	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beans	det
20	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hands	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jack						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	hand	present	Jack not said here	the beans	Jack	Milky white's halter and pockets			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bean=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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