English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 61
It's my old man,” said the ogre's wife, “what on earth shall I do?
Who acts: house, old man, I · What happens: be, say, do · To what, where: old man, wife, earth · 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 (house, old man, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 man | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 man | nmod:poss |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ogre | det |
| 10 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 ogre | case |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 said | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 earth | case |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obl |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | house | my old man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | my old man | the ogre's wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | shall | I | earth | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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