English Fairy Tales, Mouse and Mouser, sentence 24
I bought me a pudding, my lady, my lady, I bought me a pudding, my lady.
Who acts: I · What happens: buy · To what, where: pudding, me
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mouse and Mouser. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 bought | nsubj |
| 2 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 bought | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pudding | det |
| 5 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bought | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lady | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lady | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pudding | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lady | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lady | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pudding | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bought | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bought | nsubj |
| 14 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bought | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bought | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pudding | det |
| 17 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bought | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lady | punct |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lady | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pudding | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | I | a pudding and my lady and my lady | me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary pudding=Theme | |||
| 2 | buy | past | I | a pudding and my lady | me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary pudding=Theme |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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