English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 10
“The giant's treasure,” they said, “will be the reward.”
Who acts: magistrates, giant · What happens: say, be, treasure · To what, where: reward · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magistrates, giant), 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 treasure | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 giant | case |
| 5 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 treasure | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 treasure | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reward | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 reward | punct |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 reward | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 reward | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 reward | det |
| 15 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 reward | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 reward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | magistrates = magistrate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | future | the reward | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | treasure in a quote | the giant | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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