English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 46
“Where ye going, Johnny-cake?” said they.
Who acts: ye, diggers · What happens: go, say · To what, where: Johnny cake · 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 (ye, diggers), 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 | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 going | advmod |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 going | nsubj |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 6 | Johnny | Johnny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cake | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Johnny | punct |
| 8 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | gerund | ye | Johnny cake | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | diggers = digger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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