English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 79
“Well,” said the King to him, “you shall know in the morning from my birds, whether they know anything or not.”
Who acts: King, Jack, birds · What happens: say, know · To what, where: Jack, anything · 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 (King, Jack, birds), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 morning | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 morning | det |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 know | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 birds | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 birds | nmod:poss |
| 20 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 know | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 know | punct |
| 22 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 24 know | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 know | nsubj |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | parataxis |
| 25 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 know | obj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 not | cc |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 anything | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | shall | Jack | morning | from my birds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | birds = bird | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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