English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 10

“Oh, here's a little boy for supper,” said Mr. Miacca, “and I've forgot the herbs.

Who acts: little boy · What happens: be, say, forget · To what, where: little boy, herbs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (little 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	_	8 boy	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 boy	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 boy	advmod
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 boy	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 supper	case
10	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boy	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 boy	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 boy	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Miacca	nmod:desc
15	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 forgot	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 forgot	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 forgot	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 forgot	nsubj
20	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 forgot	aux
21	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Miacca	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 herbs	det
23	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 forgot	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		a little boy	here	for supper	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a little boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	forget in a quote	present	a little boy = boy	the herbs			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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