English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 68
“Nonsense, dear,” said his wife, “you're dreaming.
Who acts: wife, you · What happens: say, dream · 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 (wife, you), 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 | _ | 2 Nonsense | punct |
| 2 | Nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Nonsense | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nonsense | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nonsense | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dreaming | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 dreaming | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 dreaming | nsubj |
| 13 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 dreaming | aux |
| 14 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | fi's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dream in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: 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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