English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 80

“Go away, my boy,” said the big, tall woman, “or else my man will eat you up for breakfast.

Who acts: big tall woman, man · What happens: go away, say, eat up · To what, where: you · 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 (big tall woman, man), 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 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boy	nmod:poss
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 big	punct
13	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eat	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 eat	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 eat	cc
18	else	else	ADV	_	22 eat	advmod
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 man	nmod:poss
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eat	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 eat	aux
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	parataxis
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 eat	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 eat	compound:prt
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 breakfast	case
26	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eat	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go away in a quote	infinitive			my boy vocative; away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the big tall woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat up in a quote	future	my man	you	for breakfast; else property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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