English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 14
“Mostly, my dear,” said Mrs. Miacca, “if little boys are bad enough, and get in his way.”
Who acts: Mrs., little boys · What happens: say, be, get · To what, where: way · 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 (Mrs., little boys), 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 | _ | 5 dear | punct |
| 2 | Mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 5 dear | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dear | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dear | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dear | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | Miacca | Miacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mrs. | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bad | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 bad | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 bad | mark |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boys | amod |
| 15 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bad | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bad | cop |
| 17 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Mrs. | parataxis |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 17 bad | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 get | cc |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 way | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 way | nmod:poss |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mrs. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | little boys | bad, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | infinitive | Mrs.'s way | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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