More English Fairy Tales, LV. Lawkamercyme, sentence 13
If I--the pumpkin why on YOU?
Who acts: I · What happens: -- · To what, where: pumpkin
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LV. Lawkamercyme. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 -- | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 -- | nsubj |
| 3 | -- | -- | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pumpkin | det |
| 5 | pumpkin | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 -- | obj |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 -- | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 YOU | case |
| 8 | YOU | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 -- | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 -- | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | -- | present | I | the pumpkin | on YOU | 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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