English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 13

Then Tommy Grimes said to Mrs. Miacca: “Does Mr. Miacca always have little boys for supper?”

Who acts: Tommy · What happens: say, do, have · To what, where: Mrs., Miacca, little boys · 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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
3	Grimes	Grimes	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tommy	flat
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Mrs.	case
6	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
7	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mrs.	flat
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Does	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Does	punct
10	Does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
11	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Miacca	nmod:desc
12	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Does	obj
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 have	advmod
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Does	advcl
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boys	amod
16	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 supper	case
18	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 Does	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 Does	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Tommy		Mrs.	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mrs.=Recipient
2	do in a quote	present	Tommy not said here	Miacca Mr.				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miacca=Eventuality
3	have in a quote	present	Tommy not said here	little boys			for supper; always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient

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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