English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 23
“What back, Jack?” said his mother; “I see you haven't got Milky-white, so you've sold her.
Who acts: Jack, you · What happens: say, see, not get, sell · To what, where: mother · 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, 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 said | obj |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 What | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Jack | punct |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 Jack | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Jack | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 got | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 got | advmod |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 see | ccomp |
| 19 | Milky | milky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 white | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Milky | punct |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 got | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sold | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 sold | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 sold | nsubj |
| 25 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sold | aux |
| 26 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sold | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | Jack's mother | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme mother=Manner | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | Jack | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not get in a quote | present · perfect | you | white property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | sell in a quote | present · perfect | you | mother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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