English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 142

“May I come with you?” says Cocky-locky.

Who acts: Cocky · What happens: come, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cocky), 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	_	4 come	punct
2	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	ccomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 come	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Cocky	Cocky	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Cocky	punct
12	locky	locky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Cocky	list
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	may	Cocky					with you	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	present	Cocky						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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