English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 99
I have a tool to pick his teeth; and you, ladies and gentlemen, walk out into the garden, and you shall witness this giant Thunderdell's death and destruction.”
Who acts: I, you, ladies · What happens: have, pick, lady, walk out, death · To what, where: tool, teeth, garden
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 (I, you, ladies), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tool | det |
| 4 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pick | mark |
| 6 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tool | acl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pick | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 walk | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 walk | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 ladies | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ladies | punct |
| 13 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 walk | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gentlemen | cc |
| 15 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ladies | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 walk | punct |
| 17 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | parataxis |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 walk | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 garden | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 garden | det |
| 21 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 walk | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 death | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 death | cc |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 death | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 death | aux |
| 26 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 death | nsubj |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 death | nsubj |
| 28 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 death | amod |
| 29 | Thunderdell | Thunderdell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 death | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Thunderdell | case |
| 31 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 destruction | cc |
| 33 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 death | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a tool | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pick | to-infinitive | I not said here | Jack's teeth | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lady | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | walk out | infinitive | ladies and gentlemen | the garden | out property | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | death | shall | you | 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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