English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 17
“Sweet ladies,” quoth Jack, “I have destroyed this monster and his brutish brother, and obtained your liberties.”
Who acts: Sweet ladies, giant · What happens: quoth, destroy, obtain · To what, where: Jack, monster, liberties · 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 (Sweet ladies, giant), 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 | _ | 3 ladies | punct |
| 2 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ladies | amod |
| 3 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 quoth | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ladies | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ladies | punct |
| 6 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 quoth | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 destroyed | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 destroyed | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 destroyed | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 destroyed | aux |
| 12 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 Jack | acl:relcl |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 monster | det |
| 14 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 destroyed | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brother | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brutish | brutish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 brother | amod |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 monster | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 obtained | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 obtained | cc |
| 21 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 quoth | parataxis |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 liberties | nmod:poss |
| 23 | liberties | liberty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 obtained | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | Sweet ladies | Jack | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | destroy in a quote | present · perfect | the giant = giant | this monster and Jack's brutish brother | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Patient | ||||
| 3 | obtain in a quote | past | your liberties | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset liberty=Theme |
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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