English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 48

“Good morning, mum,” says Jack, quite polite-like.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: say · 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 (Jack), 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 morning	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mum	punct
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 morning	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 like	advmod
12	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 like	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 polite	punct
14	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 says	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jack						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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