English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 24

“You ninney-hammer,” said she to her son; “you should have carried it on your shoulder.”

Who acts: son, ninney hammer · What happens: hammer, say, carry · To what, where: son, shoulder · 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 (son, ninney hammer), 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	_	5 hammer	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hammer	nsubj
3	ninney	ninney	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hammer	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ninney	punct
5	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hammer	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 hammer	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 son	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 carried	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 carried	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 carried	nsubj:pass
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 carried	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 carried	aux
18	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carried	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 shoulder	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 shoulder	nmod:poss
22	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carried	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 carried	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	hammer in a quote		mother's son = son				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	ninney hammer		mother's son		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient clause=Topic
3	carry in a quote	should · perfect · passive		mother's son = son		your shoulder	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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