English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 15

“You stupid lout,” said his mother, “you should have carried it very carefully in your hands.”

Who acts: You, mother · What happens: lout, say, carry · To what, where: you, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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	_	7 said	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 lout	nsubj
3	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lout	amod
4	lout	lout	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lout	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 lout	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carried	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 carried	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 carried	nsubj:pass
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 carried	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 carried	aux
15	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carried	obj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 carefully	advmod
18	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	15 carried	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 hands	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hands	nmod:poss
21	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 carried	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lout in a quote		You				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Jack's mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	carry in a quote	should · perfect · passive		you	your hands	carefully property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Value

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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