English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 17
Satisfaction I will have, and this it shall be, I will take you whole and broil you for breakfast.”
Who acts: Satisfaction, this, I · What happens: have, be, take, broil · To what, where: you
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 (Satisfaction, this, I), 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 | Satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 be | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 be | cc |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 be | nsubj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 be | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 be | aux |
| 10 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 take | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 broil | cc |
| 18 | broil | broil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 take | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 broil | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 breakfast | case |
| 21 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 broil | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | Satisfaction | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be | shall | this | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | future | I | you | whole property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | |||
| 4 | broil | infinitive | I not said here | you | for breakfast | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent you=Patient for breakfast=Beneficiary |
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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