English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 53
“Make some gruel for the young master,” they said to the cook.
Who acts: gay · What happens: make, say · To what, where: gruel, cook · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gay), 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 Make | punct |
| 2 | Make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 gruel | det |
| 4 | gruel | gruel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Make | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 master | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 master | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 master | amod |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gruel | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 cook | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cook | det |
| 15 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | infinitive | some gruel | for the young master | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent gruel=Material for master=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | gay | the cook | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to cook=Recipient 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: «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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