English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 79
“Good morning, mum,” says Jack, as bold as brass, “could you be so good as to give me something to eat?”
Who acts: Jack, you · What happens: say, be, give, eat · To what, where: something, Jack · 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 (Jack, 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 | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mum | punct |
| 5 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | 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 | _ | 12 bold | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 bold | case |
| 12 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 says | ccomp |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 brass | case |
| 14 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bold | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 good | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 good | punct |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 good | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 good | nsubj |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 good | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 good | advmod |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bold | conj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 give | mark |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 give | mark |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 good | advcl |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 give | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 eat | mark |
| 28 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 something | acl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 bold | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | could | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | something | Jack | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme | |||
| 4 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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