English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 16

“Ah, ah! my little Tommy,” said the boy, “so I have caught you stealing my cherry-stones at last, and you shall be rewarded for your thievish tricks.”

Who acts: boy, your · What happens: say, catch, steal, reward, trick · To what, where: boy, cherry stones, last, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, your), 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	_	11 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	11 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	ah	ah	INTJ	_	2 Ah	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Tommy	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Tommy	amod
8	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ah	vocative
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 caught	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 caught	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 caught	nsubj:pass
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 caught	aux
19	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	parataxis
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 caught	obj
21	stealing	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 caught	xcomp
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 stones	nmod:poss
23	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stones	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 cherry	punct
25	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stealing	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 last	case
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stealing	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rewarded	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rewarded	cc
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 rewarded	nsubj:pass
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 rewarded	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 rewarded	aux:pass
33	rewarded	reward	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 caught	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	37 tricks	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 tricks	nmod:poss
36	thievish	thievish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 tricks	amod
37	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 rewarded	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	catch in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the boy = boy			tree rules
3	steal in a quote	gerund		my cherry stones	last		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stone=Theme
4	reward in a quote	shall · passive		you		for your thievish tricks	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for trick=Attribute
5	trick in a quote		your				nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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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