English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 50
For he hadn't had anything to eat, you know, the night before and was as hungry as a hunter.
Who acts: Jack, you · What happens: not have, eat, know, be · To what, where: anything
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, 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 had | advmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 know | advcl |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 had | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 eat | mark |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 anything | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 11 know | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hungry | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hungry | cop |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 hungry | advmod |
| 19 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 know | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 hunter | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hunter | det |
| 22 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hungry | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | past · perfect | Jack | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | anything not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | know | present | you | night | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | is | past | you not said here | as a hunter; hungry property | tree rules |
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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