English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 11

Quoth Jack: “Then let me undertake it.”

Who acts: Quoth Jack, magistrates · What happens: let, undertake · To what, where: magistrates, reward

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 (Quoth Jack, magistrates), 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	Quoth	Quoth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Jack	compound
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
5	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 let	advmod
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 undertake	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive	Quoth Jack	magistrates = magistrate			then		tree rules
2	undertake in a quote	infinitive	magistrates = magistrate not said here	reward					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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