English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 89
So she brought it, and the ogre said: “Lay,” and it laid an egg all of gold.
Who acts: wife, ogre, breakfast · What happens: bring, say, lay · To what, where: breakfast, egg · 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 (wife, ogre, breakfast), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ogre | det |
| 8 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lay | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lay | punct |
| 12 | Lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lay | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laid | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 laid | nsubj |
| 17 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 egg | det |
| 19 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laid | obj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 laid | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 all | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | wife | breakfast | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the ogre | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lay in a quote | infinitive | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | lay | past | breakfast | a egg | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme all=Destination |
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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