More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 116
"Do you?" said Jack, "then roast me an egg," pulling out the egg from his pocket.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: do, say, roast, pull out · To what, where: you, egg, Jack, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Do | iobj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 roast | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 roast | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 roast | advmod |
| 11 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 roast | obj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 egg | det |
| 14 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roast | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pulling | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 pulling | punct |
| 17 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 roast | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 pulling | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 egg | det |
| 20 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pulling | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 pocket | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 23 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pulling | obl | ||
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | roast in a quote | infinitive | Jack not said here | a egg | Jack | then | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary egg=Patient | ||
| 4 | pull out | gerund | Jack not said here | the egg | Jack's pocket | 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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