English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 35
At eight o'clock the commanding officer must say, 'Shoulder up.'”
Who acts: commanding officer · What happens: command, say, shoulder up · To what, where: eight o'clock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (commanding officer), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 o'clock | case |
| 2 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 o'clock | nummod |
| 3 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 officer | det |
| 5 | commanding | command | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 officer | amod |
| 6 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | aux |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Shoulder | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Shoulder | punct |
| 11 | Shoulder | shoulder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 say | ccomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 Shoulder | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Shoulder | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Shoulder | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | gerund | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | must | the commanding officer | eight o'clock | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | shoulder up | infinitive | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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