English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 51
“It's breakfast you want, is it?” says the great big tall woman, “it's breakfast you'll be if you don't move off from here.
Who acts: hunter, you · What happens: be, want, say, not be · To what, where: breakfast · 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 (hunter, 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 | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 breakfast | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 breakfast | cop |
| 4 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 breakfast | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 breakfast | punct |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 breakfast | parataxis |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 is | nsubj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 16 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 breakfast | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 breakfast | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 breakfast | nsubj |
| 21 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 breakfast | cop |
| 22 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 woman | appos |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 move | nsubj |
| 24 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 move | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 move | cop |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 move | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 move | nsubj |
| 28 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 move | aux |
| 29 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 move | advmod |
| 30 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 breakfast | acl:relcl |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 move | compound:prt |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 here | case |
| 33 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 move | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | hunter | breakfast | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | you | breakfast not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot breakfast=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | hunter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | hunter | breakfast | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future · do-support | you | breakfast not said here | move 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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