More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 40

"Oh, mother, mother!" says he, "who'll take care of me now?

Who acts: mother, folk · What happens: say, take · To what, where: care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, folk), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 mother	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mother	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 take	nsubj
14	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	ccomp
16	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 take	obl
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 take	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	mother and mother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	future	folk	care			now	of mother and mother = mother	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of i=Initial_Location

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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