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title: “It's breakfast you want, is it?” says the great big tall woman, “it… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “It's breakfast you want, is it?” says the great big tall woman, “it's breakfast you'll be if you don't move off from here. Who acts: hunter, you. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 51

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“It's breakfast you want, is it?” says the great big tall woman, “it's breakfast you'll be if you don't move off from here.

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**Who acts:** hunter, you · **What happens:** be, want, say, not be · **To what, where:** breakfast · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, 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 (hunter, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:16:51
# text = “It's breakfast you want, is it?” says the great big tall woman, “it's breakfast you'll be if you don't move off from here.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | hunter | breakfast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** *in a quote* | present | you | breakfast *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot breakfast=Theme |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | hunter |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | hunter | breakfast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future · do-support | you | breakfast *not said here* |  |  |  | move *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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