English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 85
It will not be long before I take you fast by the beard.”
Who acts: coat, I · What happens: not be, take · To what, where: you
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, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 long | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 long | cop |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 take | nsubj |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 take | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 beard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beard | det |
| 13 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | coat | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | I | you | by the beard; fast property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
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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