English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 51
Quoth he: “What news with my poor cousin Jack?”
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.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Quoth | flat |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Jack | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Jack | punct |
| 5 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 Jack | nsubj |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Jack | compound |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 cousin | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cousin | amod |
| 10 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 news | nmod |
| 11 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Quoth | appos |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 Jack | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Jack | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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