English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 78
“But now,” quoth she, “I will be too hard for the king's son, for I will kiss thee, and he is to show me thy lips.”
Who acts: cap, son · What happens: be, kiss · To what, where: thee, cap
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, son), 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 | _ | 14 hard | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 hard | cc |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 hard | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 6 | quoth | quoth | ADV | _ | 14 hard | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hard | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hard | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 hard | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 hard | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hard | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hard | cop |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 hard | advmod |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 king | case |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hard | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 kiss | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 kiss | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 kiss | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 kiss | aux |
| 24 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hard | parataxis |
| 25 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 kiss | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 show | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 show | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 show | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 show | cop |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 show | mark |
| 31 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 kiss | conj |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 show | iobj |
| 33 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 lips | nmod:poss |
| 34 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 show | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 hard | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | cap | now | for the king's son; hard, quoth property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kiss in a quote | future | cap | thee | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | son | cap | show property | 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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