English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 108
Then I will tear thee with my teeth, suck thy blood, and grind thy bones to powder.”
Who acts: I · What happens: tear, suck, grind, powder · To what, where: thee, blood, bones
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 tear | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tear | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tear | aux |
| 4 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 tear | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 teeth | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tear | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 suck | punct |
| 10 | suck | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tear | parataxis |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 blood | nmod:poss |
| 12 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 suck | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grind | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grind | cc |
| 15 | grind | grind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 suck | conj |
| 16 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 bones | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 grind | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 powder | mark |
| 19 | powder | powder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 grind | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tear | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | future | I | thee | then | with my teeth | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thou=Patient with tooth=Instrument | ||
| 2 | suck | present | thy blood | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grind | present | thy bones | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | |||||
| 4 | powder | to-infinitive | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: 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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