English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 53
You'd better be moving on or he'll soon be coming.”
Who acts: You, man · What happens: move on, come
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, man), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 moving | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 moving | aux |
| 3 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 moving | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 moving | aux |
| 5 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 moving | compound:prt |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 coming | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 coming | nsubj |
| 9 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 coming | aux |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 coming | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 coming | aux |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 moving | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moving | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 moving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move on | would · progressive | You | well property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | future · progressive | man | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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