English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 45
He'll certainly chop us up at a mouthful.
Who acts: prince · What happens: chop up · To what, where: us, mouthful
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 (prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chop | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 chop | aux |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 chop | advmod |
| 4 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 chop | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 chop | compound:prt |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 mouthful | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mouthful | det |
| 9 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chop | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop up | future | prince | us | a mouthful | certainly property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent we=Patient at mouthful=Location |
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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