English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 52
My man is an ogre and there's nothing he likes better than boys broiled on toast.
Who acts: man, nothing · What happens: be, like, broil · To what, where: ogre, boys
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 (man, nothing), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 man | nmod:poss |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ogre | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ogre | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ogre | det |
| 5 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 's | cc |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 's | expl |
| 8 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ogre | parataxis |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 's | nsubj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 likes | nsubj |
| 11 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 likes | xcomp |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 boys | case |
| 14 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 better | obl |
| 15 | broiled | broil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 boys | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 toast | case |
| 17 | toast | toast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 broiled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ogre | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | My man | a ogre | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | like | present | man | good property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | broil | participle | boys not said here | on toast | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on toast=Instrument |
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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