English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 29

“I told you you couldn't guess, what do you say to these beans; they're magical, plant them over-night and----”

Who acts: I, you, beans · What happens: tell, not guess, say, be, plant · To what, where: you, beans · 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 (I, you, beans), 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	_	3 told	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 guess	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 guess	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 guess	advmod
8	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 say	obj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 guess	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 beans	case
15	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 beans	det
16	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 say	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 magical	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 magical	nsubj
19	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 magical	cop
20	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 plant	punct
22	plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 magical	parataxis
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 plant	obj
24	over-night	over-night	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 plant	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 plant	cc
26	----	----	PUNCT	_	25 and	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not guess in a quote	could	you				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present · do-support	you		this beans		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to bean=Recipient
4	is in a quote	present	beans = bean			magical property	tree rules
5	plant in a quote	infinitive		beans = bean		over-night property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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