English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 25

“You'll never guess, mother,” says Jack.

Who acts: You, Jack · What happens: not guess, say · 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 (You, 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 guess	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 guess	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 guess	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 guess	advmod
5	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guess	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 guess	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 guess	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not guess in a quote	future	You	mother					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	Jack						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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