English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 63

The fox said: “I can't quite hear you, Johnny-cake, won't you come a little closer?” turning his head a little to one side.

Who acts: fox, you · What happens: say, not hear, not come, turn · To what, where: you, head, one side · 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 (fox, you), 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	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 hear	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 hear	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 hear	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hear	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 hear	advmod
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 hear	advmod
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 hear	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cake	punct
13	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 cake	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Johnny	punct
15	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hear	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
17	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 come	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
20	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hear	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 little	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 closer	obl:unmarked
23	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 come	xcomp
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 hear	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 hear	punct
26	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turning	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 little	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 turning	obl:unmarked
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 side	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 side	nummod
33	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turning	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the fox				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not hear in a quote	can	the fox = fox	you		Johnny cake obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	not come in a quote	future	you			close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn	gerund	the fox not said here	fox's head	one side	a little obl:unmarked	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme to side=Trajectory

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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