English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 76
“That is neither here nor there,” said she; “if you do not, death's your portion!”
Who acts: That, cap, you, death · What happens: be, say, not do, portion · 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 (That, cap, you, death), 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 here | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 here | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 here | cop |
| 4 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 here | cc:preconj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 said | parataxis |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 there | cc |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 here | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 here | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 here | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 portion | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 portion | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 death | advcl |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 do | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 portion | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 death | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 portion | nmod:poss |
| 22 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 portion | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 portion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | cap | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | portion in a quote | death | 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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