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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 quoth | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 Oh | cc |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 quoth | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 son | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 here | punct |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 son | advmod |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 here | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 king | case |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quoth | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 coming | det |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 a | punct |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 son | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 men | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 thousand | det |
| 22 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 men | nummod |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 coming | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 armour | case |
| 25 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 men | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 kill | mark |
| 27 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 coming | advcl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 kill | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 destroy | cc |
| 30 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 kill | conj |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 destroy | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 have | obj |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 have | nsubj |
| 34 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 all | acl:relcl |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | Jack | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | gerund | the king's son not said here | with thousand men in armour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | the king's son not said here | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | destroy in a quote | infinitive | the king's son not said here | all | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | you | vn 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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