English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 54
“Oh! please mum, do give me something to eat, mum.
Who acts: you · What happens: give, eat · To what, where: something, Jack, mum
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), 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 | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 give | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 5 mum | discourse |
| 5 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 give | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 eat | mark |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 something | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mum | punct |
| 14 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eat | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | something | Jack | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | mum | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Patient |
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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