English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 68

She wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, saying: “You must show me that handkerchief to-morrow morning, or else you will lose your head.”

Who acts: repast, You · What happens: wipe, say, show, lose · To what, where: mouth, handkerchief, repast, head · 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 (repast, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wiped	nsubj
2	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mouth	nmod:poss
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wiped	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 handkerchief	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 handkerchief	det
7	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wiped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saying	punct
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 wiped	advcl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 show	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 show	punct
12	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 show	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 show	aux
14	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 saying	advcl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 show	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 handkerchief	mark
17	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 show	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 morning	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 to	punct
20	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 morning	compound
21	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 show	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lose	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 lose	cc
24	else	else	ADV	_	27 lose	advmod
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 lose	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 lose	aux
27	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wiped	parataxis
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lose	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 lose	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 lose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wipe	past	repast	Jack's mouth			with a handkerchief	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	repast not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	show in a quote	must	You	handkerchief	repast	morning		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	lose in a quote	future	you	your head			else property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality

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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