English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 1

Tommy Grimes was sometimes a good boy, and sometimes a bad boy; and when he was a bad boy, he was a very bad boy.

Who acts: Tommy · What happens: be · To what, where: good boy, bad boy

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Miacca. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tommy), 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	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 boy	nsubj
2	Grimes	Grimes	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tommy	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	cop
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 boy	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 boy	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 boy	cc
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 boy	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boy	det
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boy	amod
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boy	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 boy	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 boy	cc
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 boy	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 boy	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 boy	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 boy	det
20	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 boy	amod
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 boy	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 boy	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 boy	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 boy	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 boy	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 bad	advmod
27	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 boy	amod
28	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boy	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Tommy	a good boy and a bad boy	a bad boy nmod; sometimes property	tree rules
2	is a	past	Tommy	a bad boy		tree rules
3	is a	past	Tommy	a bad boy		tree rules

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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