English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 56
“Oh, cousin Jack,” said the giant, “this is heavy news indeed!
Who acts: cousin, this · What happens: say, be · To what, where: giant, heavy news · 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 (cousin, this), 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 | _ | 4 cousin | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 cousin | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cousin | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cousin | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cousin | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 news | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 news | punct |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 news | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 news | cop |
| 15 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 news | amod |
| 16 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 16 news | advmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | cousin | the giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | heavy news | indeed property | tree rules |
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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