English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 30

“What!” says Jack's mother, “have you been such a fool, such a dolt, such an idiot, as to give away my Milky-white, the best milker in the parish, and prime beef to boot, for a set of paltry beans.

Who acts: mother, you · What happens: say, be, give away, boot · To what, where: fool, best milker, parish · 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 (mother, 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	_	5 says	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 says	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mother	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Jack	case
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fool	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 fool	punct
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fool	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 fool	nsubj
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 fool	cop
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 fool	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fool	det
16	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dolt	punct
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 dolt	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dolt	det
20	dolt	dolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fool	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 idiot	punct
22	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	24 idiot	det:predet
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 idiot	det
24	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dolt	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 give	mark
27	to	to	PART	_	28 give	mark
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	conj
29	away	away	ADP	_	28 give	compound:prt
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 white	nmod:poss
31	Milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 white	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Milky	punct
33	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 give	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 milker	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 milker	det
36	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 milker	amod
37	milker	milker	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 parish	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 parish	det
40	parish	parish	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 milker	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 beef	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 beef	cc
43	prime	prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 beef	amod
44	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 milker	appos
45	to	to	PART	_	46 boot	mark
46	boot	boot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 beef	acl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 set	punct
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 set	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 set	det
50	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 beans	case
52	paltry	paltry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 beans	amod
53	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 set	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jack's mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present · perfect	you	such fool and such dolt			tree rules
3	give away in a quote	to-infinitive	Jack's mother not said here	the best milker	the parish	for a set of paltry beans	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent milker=Theme
4	boot in a quote	to-infinitive	Jack's mother not said here				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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