English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 7

“All right, mother,” says Jack; “it's market-day today, and I'll soon sell Milky-white, and then we'll see what we can do.”

Who acts: right mother, shop, we · What happens: say, be, sell, see, do · To what, where: market day, Milky white · 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 (right mother, shop, we), 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	_	8 says	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 mother	det
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mother	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 day	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 day	cop
14	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 day	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 market	punct
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obl:unmarked
17	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 day	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sell	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sell	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 sell	nsubj
21	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 sell	aux
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 sell	advmod
23	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	ccomp
24	Milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 white	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Milky	punct
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sell	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 see	advmod
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
31	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sell	parataxis
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 do	obj
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 do	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 do	aux
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 see	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	all right mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	shop	market day	today		tree rules
3	sell in a quote	future	all right mother = mother	Milky white		soon property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent white=Theme
4	see in a quote	future	we		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do in a quote	can	we				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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