English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 28
“No,” quoth Jack, “nothing but a rat, which gave me two or three slaps with her tail.”
What happens: quoth, give · To what, where: Jack, two slaps, Welsh giant
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: 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 quoth | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nothing | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 nothing | punct |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 Jack | appos |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 rat | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rat | det |
| 12 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 slaps | nummod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 three | cc |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 two | conj |
| 20 | slaps | slap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gave | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 tail | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 tail | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slaps | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | Jack | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | past | two slaps | the Welsh giant = giant | with club's tail | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient slap=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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