English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 105

Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make me bread!”

Who acts: castle, I · What happens: be, grind, make · To what, where: bones, bread, 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 (castle, 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 alive	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 alive	nsubj
3	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 dead	cc
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 dead	cop
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dead	nsubj
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 alive	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grind	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 grind	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 grind	aux
11	grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 alive	parataxis
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bones	nmod:poss
13	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grind	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 grind	advcl
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 make	obj
17	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 alive	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 alive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive	castle			alive property	tree rules
2	is	infinitive	castle			dead property	tree rules
3	grind	future	I	castle's bones			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
4	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	bread	me		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary bread=Product

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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