English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 20
Oh, faith, you are gotten now into Lob's Pound, where I will surely plague you for your threatening words: what do you think now of broiling me for your breakfast?
Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: get, plague, think, broil, word · To what, where: you, Pound, me
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 (I, you, your), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 gotten | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 faith | punct |
| 3 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oh | vocative |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 gotten | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gotten | aux:pass |
| 7 | gotten | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 gotten | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 Pound | case |
| 10 | Lob | Lob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Pound | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Lob | case |
| 12 | Pound | Pound | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gotten | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 plague | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 plague | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 plague | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 plague | aux |
| 17 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 18 plague | advmod |
| 18 | plague | plague | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gotten | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 plague | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 words | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 words | nmod:poss |
| 22 | threatening | threatening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 words | compound |
| 23 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 plague | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 think | punct |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 think | obj |
| 26 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 think | aux |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 think | nsubj |
| 28 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gotten | conj |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 think | advmod |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 31 broiling | mark |
| 31 | broiling | broil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 think | advcl |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 broiling | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 breakfast | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 35 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 broiling | obl |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 gotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · passive | you | Lob's Pound | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | plague | future | I | you | for your threatening words; surely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | now | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | broil | gerund | you not said here | me | for your breakfast | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Patient for breakfast=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | word | your | nom word «communication 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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