English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 36
Not a sup shall you drink, and not a bit shall you swallow this very night.”
Who acts: sup, bit · What happens: not drink, not swallow · To what, where: this
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 (sup, bit), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 drink | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sup | det |
| 3 | sup | sup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drink | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 drink | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 drink | nsubj |
| 6 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swallow | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swallow | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 swallow | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bit | det |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swallow | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 swallow | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 swallow | nsubj |
| 14 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 drink | conj |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 swallow | obj |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 night | advmod |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swallow | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drink | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not drink | shall | a sup | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not swallow | shall | a bit | this | night | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=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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