English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 6
“You stupid boy,” said his mother, “you should have put it in your pocket.”
Who acts: You, stupid boy · What happens: boy, say, put · To what, where: mother, money, pocket · 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, stupid boy), 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 boy | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 boy | nsubj |
| 3 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boy | amod |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 boy | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 boy | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 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 put | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 put | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 put | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 put | aux |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 pocket | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 19 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl | ||
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boy in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | stupid boy | Jack's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic | ||||
| 3 | put in a quote | should · perfect | you | money | your pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=Destination |
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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