English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 62
Quoth the giant: “You know not what you ask; they are the most precious things I have.
Who acts: you, slippers, vault · What happens: quoth, not know, ask, be, have · To what, where: giant, precious things · 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 (you, slippers, vault), 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 | Quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Quoth | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Quoth | parataxis |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 know | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 ask | nsubj |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 things | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 things | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 things | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 things | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 precious | advmod |
| 17 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 things | amod |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Quoth | parataxis |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 things | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | imperative | you not said here | the giant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | slippers = slipper | the precious things | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | the vault = vault | the precious things not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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