English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 55

I've had nothing to eat since yesterday morning, really and truly, mum,” says Jack.

Who acts: I, Jack · What happens: have, eat, say · To what, where: nothing · 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 (I, Jack), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 had	aux
3	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	acl
7	since	since	ADP	_	9 morning	case
8	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 morning	compound
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 really	punct
11	really	really	ADV	_	6 eat	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 truly	cc
13	truly	truly	ADV	_	11 really	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mum	punct
15	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nothing	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
19	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 says	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	I	nothing		tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	I not said here	nothing not said here	morning	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Jack			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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