English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 19
“Oh, Giant,” quoth Jack, “where are you now?
Who acts: you · What happens: quoth, be · To what, where: Jack
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 (you), 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 | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 quoth | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Oh | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 quoth | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 where | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 where | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 quoth | advmod |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 where | cop |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 where | nsubj |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 quoth | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | Jack | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | where property | tree rules |
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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