English Fairy Tales, XIII. Jack and the Beanstalk., sentence 1

_Source_.--I tell this as it was told me in Australia, somewhere about the year 1860.

Who acts: I · What happens: tell · To what, where: Source, me, Australia · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. Jack and the Beanstalk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Source	punct
2	Source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Source	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	2 Source	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 tell	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 told	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux:pass
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tell	advcl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Australia	case
14	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 told	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 year	punct
16	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 year	advmod
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 year	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 year	det
19	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	parataxis
20	1860	1860	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 year	flat
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	I	Source					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		Source	me	Australia			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic

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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