English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 56

“I may as well be broiled, as die of hunger.”

What happens: broil · To what, where: Jack

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: 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	_	7 broiled	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 broiled	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 broiled	aux
4	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	7 broiled	cc
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 as	fixed
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 broiled	aux:pass
7	broiled	broil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 die	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 die	case
10	die	die	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broiled	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 hunger	case
12	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 die	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 broiled	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 broiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	broil in a quote	may · passive		Jack				as die of hunger	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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