English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 49
“Could you be so kind as to give me some breakfast.”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, give · To what, where: breakfast, Jack
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 (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 | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 2 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kind | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 kind | advmod |
| 6 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kind | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 breakfast | det |
| 12 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | could | you | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | some breakfast | Jack | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient breakfast=Theme |
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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