English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 65

At his belt he had three calves strung up by the heels, and he unhooked them and threw them down on the table and said: “Here, wife, broil me a couple of these for breakfast.

Who acts: ogre, wife · What happens: have, string up, unhook, throw down, say, broil · To what, where: three calves, belt, calves, table, couple, ogre · 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 (ogre, wife), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 belt	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 belt	nmod:poss
3	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 calves	nummod
7	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	strung	string	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 calves	acl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 strung	compound:prt
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 heels	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 heels	det
12	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 strung	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 unhooked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 unhooked	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 unhooked	nsubj
16	unhooked	unhook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 unhooked	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 threw	cc
19	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 unhooked	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 threw	obj
21	down	down	ADP	_	19 threw	compound:prt
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 table	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 table	det
24	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 threw	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 broil	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 Here	punct
29	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 broil	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wife	punct
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 broil	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wife	punct
33	broil	broil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 broil	obj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 couple	det
36	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 broil	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 these	case
38	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	36 couple	nmod
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 breakfast	case
40	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 broil	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	ogre	three calves		ogre's belt		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient
2	string up	participle		three calves not said here			by the heels	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by heel=Destination
3	unhook	past	ogre	calves = calf				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	throw down	past	ogre not said here	calves = calf		the table		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme on table=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past	ogre not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	broil in a quote	infinitive	wife	a couple of these	ogre	here	for breakfast	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary couple=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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