English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 87
In came the ogre as he did before, said: “Fee-fi-fo-fum,” and had his breakfast off three broiled oxen.
Who acts: ogre, Fee fi, three · What happens: come, do, say, fum, have, broil · To what, where: ogre, breakfast, oxen · 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, Fee fi, three), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 came | case |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ogre | det |
| 4 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 did | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | advcl |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 did | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 fum | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fum | punct |
| 13 | Fee | fee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fi | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Fee | punct |
| 15 | fi | fi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fum | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 fi | punct |
| 17 | fo | fo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fum | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 fum | punct |
| 19 | fum | fum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fum | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fum | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 25 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 broiled | mark |
| 27 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 broiled | nsubj |
| 28 | broiled | broil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 had | advcl |
| 29 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 broiled | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the ogre | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ogre=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | ogre | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | fum in a quote | Fee fi | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | have | past | fi's breakfast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient | |||||
| 6 | broil | past | three | oxen | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ox=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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