English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 51
The bear said: “Where are ye going, Johnny-cake?”
Who acts: bear, ye · What happens: say, go · To what, where: 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 (bear, ye), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 6 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 going | advmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 going | nsubj |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 11 | Johnny | Johnny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 going | xcomp |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Johnny | punct |
| 13 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | ye | cake | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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