English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 83

“That's strange, mum,” says Jack, “I dare say I could tell you something about that but I'm so hungry I can't speak till I've had something to eat.”

Who acts: That, Jack · What happens: be, say, tell, not speak, have, eat · To what, where: something, 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 (That, Jack), 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	_	4 strange	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 strange	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 strange	cop
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 says	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mum	punct
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strange	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 strange	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 strange	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
14	dare	dare	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 say	aux
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	parataxis
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 say	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 tell	obj
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 something	nmod
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 hungry	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 hungry	nsubj
25	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 hungry	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 hungry	advmod
27	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 say	ccomp
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 speak	nsubj
29	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 speak	aux
30	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 speak	advmod
31	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 hungry	parataxis
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 had	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
34	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 had	aux
35	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 speak	ccomp
36	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	35 had	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 eat	mark
38	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 something	acl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That			strange property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Jack				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert in a quote	dare	Jack				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	could	Jack	something	you	about that	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic
5	is in a quote	present	Jack			hungry property	tree rules
6	not speak speech: other in a quote	can	Jack				tree rules
7	have in a quote	present · perfect	Jack	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
8	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	Jack 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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