English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 29
“Where are you, Tommy, my dear Tommy?” said his mother.
Who acts: you, Tommy · What happens: be, say · To what, where: mother · 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 (you, Tommy), 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 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 said | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Where | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Where | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tommy | punct |
| 6 | Tommy | Tommy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tommy | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Tommy | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Tommy | amod |
| 10 | Tommy | tommy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Tommy | appos |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tommy | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tommy | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Tommy | Tommy's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=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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