English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 63

The coat will keep you invisible, the cap will tell you all you want to know, the sword cuts asunder whatever you strike, and the shoes are of extraordinary swiftness.

Who acts: coat, cap, you, sword, shoes · What happens: keep, tell, want, know, cut, strike · To what, where: you, asunder, whatever · 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 (coat, cap, you, sword), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coat	det
2	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 keep	obj
6	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cap	det
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 keep	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 you	nmod:unmarked
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 want	nsubj
15	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 all	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 know	mark
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 want	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cuts	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sword	det
20	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cuts	nsubj
21	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	parataxis
22	asunder	asunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cuts	obj
23	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 strike	obj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 strike	nsubj
25	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 asunder	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 swiftness	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 swiftness	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 shoes	det
29	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 swiftness	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 swiftness	cop
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 swiftness	case
32	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 swiftness	amod
33	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	future	the coat	you		invisible property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	future	the cap		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	want	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	cut	present	the sword	asunder			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset asunder=Product
6	strike	present	you	whatever			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Patient
7	is	present	the shoes			of extraordinary swiftness	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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