English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 28

Five pounds, ten, fifteen, no, it can't be twenty.”

Who acts: much · What happens: not be · To what, where: twenty

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 (much), 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	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ten	punct
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fifteen	punct
6	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ten	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 twenty	punct
8	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	14 twenty	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 no	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 twenty	nsubj
11	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 twenty	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 twenty	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 twenty	cop
14	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pounds	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 pounds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	can	much	twenty					tree rules

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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