English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 30
“Here, mother,” replied he, “in the red cow's mouth.”
Who acts: mother · What happens: reply · To what, where: mouth
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 (mother), 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 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 replied | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | 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 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mouth | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mouth | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 mouth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cow | det |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cow | amod |
| 14 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 cow | case |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 mouth | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mouth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | mother | the red cow's mouth; here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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