English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 26

“Well,” said Jack, “I want a great lake and some of the largest man-of-war vessels in the world before this mansion, and one of the largest vessels to fire a royal salute, and the last round to break one of the legs of the bed where this young lady is sleeping.”

Who acts: Jack, young lady · What happens: say, want, break, sleep · To what, where: great lake, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, young lady), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 want	nsubj
10	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lake	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lake	amod
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 want	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 some	cc
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 lake	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 man	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 some	nmod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 vessels	punct
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 vessels	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 of	punct
23	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 vessels	compound
24	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 man	appos
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 world	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 vessels	nmod
28	before	before	ADP	_	30 mansion	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 mansion	det
30	mansion	mansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 want	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 one	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 one	cc
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 said	ccomp
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 vessels	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 vessels	det
36	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 vessels	amod
37	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 one	nmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 fire	mark
39	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 vessels	acl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 salute	det
41	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 salute	amod
42	salute	salute	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 vessels	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 round	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 round	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 round	det
46	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 round	amod
47	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	parataxis
48	to	to	PART	_	49 break	mark
49	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 round	acl
50	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 break	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 legs	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 legs	det
53	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 one	nmod
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 bed	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 bed	det
56	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 legs	nmod
57	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	62 sleeping	advmod
58	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 lady	det
59	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 lady	amod
60	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 sleeping	nsubj
61	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	62 sleeping	aux
62	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 bed	acl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
64	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jack			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want in a quote	present	Jack	a great lake	before this mansion	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lake=Theme
3	break in a quote	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	one of the legs of the bed		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient
4	sleep in a quote	present · progressive	this young lady			vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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