English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 61
“Why,” quoth Jack, “I want nothing but the old coat and cap, together with the old rusty sword and slippers which are at your bed's head.”
Who acts: vault, slippers · What happens: quoth, want, be · To what, where: Jack, nothing, head
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 (vault, slippers), 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 | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 quoth | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 5 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 quoth | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 want | nsubj |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 quoth | conj |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 want | obj |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 coat | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 coat | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 coat | amod |
| 15 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nothing | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cap | cc |
| 17 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nothing | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 together | punct |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 want | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 sword | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sword | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sword | amod |
| 23 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sword | amod |
| 24 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 want | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 slippers | cc |
| 26 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sword | conj |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 head | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 head | cop |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 head | case |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 bed | nmod:poss |
| 31 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 head | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 bed | case |
| 33 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 slippers | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | Jack | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | the vault = vault | nothing | with the old rusty sword and slippers; together property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | slippers | your bed's head | 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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