English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 11
Mind him, will ye, while I go for them.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: mind, go · To what, where: Miacca
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 (you, I), 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 | Mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Mind | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 will | punct |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Mind | advcl |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 will | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Mind | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 go | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mind | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | imperative | you not said here | Miacca | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | present | I | for boy | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary |
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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