English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 19

When he got home, his mother said to him, “You silly fellow, you should have tied it with a string, and dragged it along after you.”

Who acts: Jack, mother · What happens: get, say, fellow, tie, drag · To what, where: Jack, silly fellow, cat · 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 (Jack, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tied	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 tied	punct
13	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 fellow	nsubj
14	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fellow	amod
15	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tied	nsubj:pass
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fellow	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tied	nsubj:pass
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 tied	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 tied	aux
20	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tied	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 string	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 string	det
24	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tied	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dragged	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dragged	cc
27	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 dragged	obj
29	along	along	ADV	_	27 dragged	advmod
30	after	after	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 dragged	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Jack				home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	Jack's mother		Jack			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	fellow in a quote		Jack					tree rules
4	tie in a quote	should · perfect · passive		silly fellow			with a string	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient it=Result
5	drag in a quote	past	Jack's mother not said here	cat		after Jack	along property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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