English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 22
“Though here you lodge with me this night, You shall not see the morning light My club shall dash your brains outright!”
Who acts: you, club · What happens: lodge, not see, dash · To what, where: morning light, brains · 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 (you, club), 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 | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 2 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 lodge | mark |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Though | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 lodge | nsubj |
| 5 | lodge | lodge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 lodge | obl |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lodge | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lodge | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 light | det |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 light | compound |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 18 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 club | nmod:poss |
| 19 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dash | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 dash | aux |
| 21 | dash | dash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 see | ccomp |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brains | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dash | obj |
| 24 | outright | outright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dash | xcomp |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lodge in a quote | present | you | night | with Jack | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | |||
| 2 | not see in a quote | shall | You | the morning light | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dash in a quote | shall | My club | your brains | outright property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
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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