English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 106
“Say'st thou so,” said Jack; “then thou art a monstrous miller indeed.”
Who acts: Say'st · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Say'st), 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 | _ | 2 Say'st | punct |
| 2 | Say'st | Say'st | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Say'st | appos |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 Say'st | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 so | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Say'st | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 art | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 art | advmod |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 art | nsubj |
| 13 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 miller | det |
| 15 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 miller | amod |
| 16 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 art | obj |
| 17 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 13 art | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 art | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 art | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Say'st | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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