English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 5
“Cheer up, mother, I'll go and get work somewhere,” said Jack.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: cheer up, go, get, say · To what, where: mother, work · 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 | _ | 2 Cheer | punct |
| 2 | Cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Cheer | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mother | punct |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Cheer | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Cheer | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 13 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 get | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cheer | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cheer | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer up in a quote | infinitive | mother | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | Jack | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | infinitive | Jack not said here | work | somewhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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