English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 12
“Now,” quoth Jack to himself, “my death or my deliverance is at hand.”
Who acts: deliverance, my · What happens: quoth, be, die, deliver · To what, where: Jack, hand
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 (deliverance, my), 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 | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 quoth | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 quoth | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 quoth | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 death | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 death | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 death | nmod:poss |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quoth | parataxis |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 hand | cc |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 deliverance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hand | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hand | cop |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 death | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | Jack | Jack | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | my deliverance | hand | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die in a quote | my | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | deliver in a quote | my | nom deliverance «act 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/12/