English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 92
“Ay,” quoth Jack, “but pray tell me what is the meaning of your captivity?”
What happens: quoth, pray, tell, be · To what, where: Jack, me, meaning · 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: 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 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 5 quoth | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ay | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ay | punct |
| 5 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 quoth | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pray | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 pray | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 pray | cc |
| 10 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 quoth | conj |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pray | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 meaning | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 meaning | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 meaning | det |
| 16 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 captivity | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 captivity | nmod:poss |
| 19 | captivity | captivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 meaning | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | Jack | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pray in a quote | present | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the meaning | of your captivity | 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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