English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 65
Wipe, wipe your eyes, and shake your head And cry,--Alas!
Who acts: you · What happens: wipe, shake, cry · To what, where: eyes, head
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), 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 | Wipe | wipe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wipe | punct |
| 3 | wipe | wipe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wipe | conj |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wipe | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shake | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shake | cc |
| 8 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wipe | parataxis |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shake | obj |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cry | cc |
| 12 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 shake | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shake | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 Alas | punct |
| 15 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 1 Wipe | discourse |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wipe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wipe | imperative | you not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wipe | infinitive | you not said here | your eyes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source | ||||
| 3 | shake | infinitive | your head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | infinitive | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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