English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 47

“It is no matter for that,” quoth Jack; “I myself will go before and prepare the way for you; therefore stop here and wait till I return.”

Who acts: It, you, Jack · What happens: be, quoth, go, prepare, stop, wait · To what, where: matter, Jack, way · 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 (It, you, Jack), 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	_	10 quoth	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 matter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 quoth	parataxis
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 matter	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 matter	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 quoth	punct
10	quoth	quoth	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 quoth	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
15	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 go	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 quoth	parataxis
18	before	before	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 prepare	cc
20	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 prepare	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 prepare	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 stop	punct
26	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	27 stop	advmod
27	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	parataxis
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 stop	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wait	cc
30	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 stop	conj
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 return	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 return	nsubj
33	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 wait	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 quoth	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 quoth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	It	no matter		for that	tree rules
2	quoth	imperative	you not said here	Jack			tree rules
3	go in a quote	future	Jack			before property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	prepare in a quote	infinitive	Jack not said here	the way		for you	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent way=Product for you=Beneficiary
5	stop in a quote	infinitive			here	therefore property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	wait in a quote	infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	return in a quote	present	Jack				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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