English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 3
But one morning Milky-white gave no milk and they didn't know what to do.
Who acts: they · What happens: give, not know, do · To what, where: milk · 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 (they), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 gave | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 morning | nummod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 4 | Milky | milky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 white | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Milky | punct |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 milk | det |
| 9 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 know | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gave | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 know | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | no milk | morning | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | they | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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