English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 27
“How have you rested?” quoth the giant; “did you not feel anything in the night?”
Who acts: you · What happens: rest, quoth, not feel · To what, where: giant, anything
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), 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 rested | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 have | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rested | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 5 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 quoth | advcl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 rested | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 rested | punct |
| 8 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 quoth | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 feel | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 feel | punct |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 feel | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 feel | nsubj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 feel | advmod |
| 16 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 quoth | conj |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 feel | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 night | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 night | det |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feel | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 quoth | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest in a quote | present · perfect | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | quoth | present | the giant | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not feel in a quote | past · do-support | you | anything | night | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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