More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 12
"Why, what's the matter?" said his wife, "and why do you want to know who Tommy Tildrum is?"
Who acts: wife, you, Tommy Tildrum · What happens: be, say, want, know · To what, where: matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, you, Tommy Tildrum), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 matter | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 matter | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 matter | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 matter | det |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 matter | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 matter | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 want | cc |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 want | advmod |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 want | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 want | nsubj |
| 19 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 know | mark |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 want | xcomp |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 know | ccomp |
| 23 | Tommy | Tommy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Tildrum | compound |
| 24 | Tildrum | Tildrum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 who | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 who | cop |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 want | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | prince's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | Tommy Tildrum | 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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