English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 56

His wife cried, “It's me, man;” but the dog barked and the cat mewed, and he did not know his wife's voice.

Who acts: wife, giant, dog, cat · What happens: cry, be, bark, mew, not know · To what, where: wife, voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, giant, dog, cat), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cried	nsubj
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 me	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 me	punct
6	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 me	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 me	cop
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 cried	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 me	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 barked	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dog	det
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 barked	nsubj
16	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cried	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mewed	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cat	det
19	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mewed	nsubj
20	mewed	mew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 barked	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 know	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 know	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 know	advmod
26	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cried	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wife	nmod:poss
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 voice	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 wife	case
30	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 know	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Home's wife		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	giant	Home's wife = wife	tree rules
3	bark	past	the dog		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mew	past	the cat		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not know	past · do-support	cat	Home's wife's voice	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus

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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