English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 72

“Wait till he's asleep,” says she; “he always has a snooze after breakfast.”

Who acts: ogre · What happens: wait, be, say, have · To what, where: woman, snooze · 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), 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 Wait	punct
2	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	ccomp
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 asleep	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 asleep	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 asleep	cop
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Wait	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 says	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 has	nsubj
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 has	advmod
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 says	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 snooze	det
17	snooze	snooze	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obj
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 breakfast	case
19	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait in a quote	infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	ogre			asleep property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present		woman			tree rules
4	have in a quote	present	ogre	a snooze	after breakfast	always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snooze=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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