English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 8
“Dear, dear!” said he, “make me a big cake.
Who acts: God · What happens: say, make · To what, where: big cake, God · 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 (God), 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 Dear | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Dear | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dear | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dear | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cake | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cake | amod |
| 15 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | infinitive | God not said here | a big cake | God | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary cake=Product |
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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