English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 6

“We've tried that before, and nobody would take you,” said his mother; “we must sell Milky-white and with the money do something, start shop, or something.”

Who acts: We, nobody, mother · What happens: try, take, say, sell, do, start · To what, where: that, you, something, Milky white, shop · 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 (We, nobody, mother), 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	_	4 tried	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	aux
4	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	ccomp
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tried	obj
6	before	before	ADV	_	4 tried	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 take	cc
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 take	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 take	aux
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 take	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 sell	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 sell	punct
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 sell	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sell	aux
22	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
23	Milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 white	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Milky	punct
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sell	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 money	cc
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 money	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 money	det
29	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sell	conj
30	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sell	parataxis
31	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 do	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 start	punct
33	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sell	conj
34	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 start	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 something	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 something	cc
37	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 said	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 something	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 something	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	try in a quote	present · perfect	We	that		before property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	take in a quote	would	nobody		you		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	Jack's mother	something			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sell in a quote	must	we	Milky white			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent white=Theme
5	do in a quote	present		something			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
6	start in a quote	infinitive	we not said here	shop			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Eventuality

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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