English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 95

And when he got home he showed his mother the wonderful hen and said “Lay,” to it; and it laid a golden egg every time he said “Lay.”

Who acts: Jack, house · What happens: get, show, say, lay · To what, where: wonderful hen, mother, house, golden 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 (Jack, house), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 showed	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 showed	advcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 showed	nsubj
7	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 showed	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hen	det
11	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hen	amod
12	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 showed	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 showed	conj
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 Lay	punct
16	Lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Lay	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 Lay	punct
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 Lay	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 laid	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 laid	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 laid	nsubj
24	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 egg	det
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 egg	amod
27	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laid	obj
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 time	det
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laid	obl:unmarked
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 showed	parataxis
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 Lay	punct
33	Lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 said	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 Lay	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 Lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Jack				home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	show	past	Jack	the wonderful hen	Jack's mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient hen=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	Jack not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	lay in a quote	infinitive			house			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	lay	past	house	a golden egg		time		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
6	say speech: assert	past	Jack					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	lay in a quote	infinitive						vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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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