More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 80

"Ay, mother, where is it?"

Who acts: goodwife · What happens: be · To what, where: mother

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goodwife), 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	_	4 mother	punct
2	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	4 mother	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ay	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 where	punct
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	4 mother	acl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 where	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 where	nsubj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	goodwife	mother not said here				where property	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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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