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English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 55

“Oh, but,” quoth Jack, “here's the king's son a-coming with a thousand men in armour to kill you and destroy all that you have!”

Who acts: son, you · What happens: quoth, be, come, kill, destroy, have · To what, where: Jack, you, all

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 (son, 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

punctdiscoursepunctccpunctpunctobjpunctpunctadvmodcopdetnmod:posscaseconjdetpunctaclcasedetnummodoblcasenmodmarkadvclobjccconjoblobjnsubjacl:relclpunctpunctroot“PUNCTOhINTJ,PUNCTbutCCONJ,PUNCT”PUNCTquothVERBJackPROPN,PUNCT“PUNCThereADV'sAUXtheDETkingNOUN'sPARTsonNOUNaDET-PUNCTcomingVERBwithADPaDETthousandNUMmenNOUNinADParmourNOUNtoPARTkillVERByouPRONandCCONJdestroyVERBallDETthatPRONyouPRONhaveVERB!PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_7 quothpunct
2OhohINTJ_7 quothdiscourse
3,,PUNCT_2 Ohpunct
4butbutCCONJ_2 Ohcc
5,,PUNCT_2 Ohpunct
6”"PUNCT_2 Ohpunct
7quothquothVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
8JackJackPROPNNumber=Sing7 quothobj
9,,PUNCT_16 sonpunct
10“"PUNCT_11 herepunct
11herehereADVPronType=Dem16 sonadvmod
12'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 herecop
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 kingdet
14kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing16 sonnmod:poss
15's'sPART_14 kingcase
16sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing7 quothconj
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 comingdet
18--PUNCT_17 apunct
19comingcomeVERBVerbForm=Ger16 sonacl
20withwithADP_23 mencase
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 thousanddet
22thousandthousandNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card23 mennummod
23menmanNOUNNumber=Plur19 comingobl
24ininADP_25 armourcase
25armourarmourNOUNNumber=Sing23 mennmod
26totoPART_27 killmark
27killkillVERBVerbForm=Inf19 comingadvcl
28youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs27 killobj
29andandCCONJ_30 destroycc
30destroydestroyVERBVerbForm=Inf27 killconj
31allallDETPronType=Tot30 destroyobl
32thatthatPRONPronType=Rel34 haveobj
33youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs34 havensubj
34havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin31 allacl:relcl
35!!PUNCT_7 quothpunct
36”"PUNCT_7 quothpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1quothpresentJacktree rules
2is in a quotepresenthere propertytree rules
3come in a quotegerundthe king's son not said herewith thousand men in armourvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4kill in a quoteto-infinitivethe king's son not said hereyouvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5destroy in a quoteinfinitivethe king's son not said hereallvn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6have in a quotepresentyouvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

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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