English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 88
Then he said: “Wife, bring me the hen that lays the golden eggs.”
Who acts: three, Wife, hen · What happens: say, bring, lay · To what, where: hen, three, golden eggs · 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 (three, Wife, hen), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 6 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wife | punct |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hen | det |
| 11 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lays | nsubj |
| 13 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hen | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eggs | det |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eggs | amod |
| 16 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lays | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | three | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | infinitive | Wife | the hen | three | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination hen=Theme | |||
| 3 | lay in a quote | present | the hen | the golden eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
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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