English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 74
On that day, she gave the prince a kiss and told him he must show her the lips to-morrow morning that she kissed last night, or lose his head.
Who acts: cap, prince · What happens: give, tell, show, kiss, lose · To what, where: kiss, prince, lips, cap, 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 (cap, prince), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 kiss | det |
| 10 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 show | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 show | aux |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | ccomp |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 show | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lips | det |
| 19 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 show | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 morning | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 to | punct |
| 22 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 morning | compound |
| 23 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 show | obl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 kissed | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 kissed | nsubj |
| 26 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 show | parataxis |
| 27 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 night | amod |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kissed | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lose | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 lose | cc |
| 31 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 show | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 head | nmod:poss |
| 33 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lose | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | cap | a kiss | the prince | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient kiss=Theme | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | cap not said here | prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | show | must | prince | the lips | cap | morning | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient lip=Topic | ||
| 4 | kiss | past | cap | night | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | lose | infinitive | prince not said here | prince's head | 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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