English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 61
The fox called out in a sharp voice, but without getting up: “Where ye going Johnny-cake?”
Who acts: ye · What happens: call out, get up, go · To what, where: fox, sharp voice, 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), 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 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fox | acl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 called | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 voice | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 7 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 voice | amod |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 going | cc |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 getting | mark |
| 12 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 going | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 getting | compound:prt |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 getting | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 16 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 going | advmod |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 going | nsubj |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 fox | parataxis |
| 19 | Johnny | Johnny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 cake | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Johnny | punct |
| 21 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 going | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 fox | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: ask | participle | the fox not said here | a sharp voice | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get up | gerund | ye not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | gerund | ye | Johnny cake | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cake=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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