More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 39
"Look at Old Tom, look at Old Tom!" screamed his wife.
Who acts: wife · What happens: look, scream · 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), 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 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 screamed | ccomp |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Tom | case |
| 4 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Tom | amod |
| 5 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Look | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Look | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Tom | case |
| 9 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Tom | amod |
| 10 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 13 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 screamed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | at Old Tom | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tom=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | at Old Tom | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tom=Theme | |||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | past | Tom's wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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: «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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