English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 16
No pudding?” asked Tommy.
Who acts: pudding · What happens: ask · To what, where: Tommy
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 (pudding), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 pudding | det |
| 2 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 pudding | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 pudding | punct |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Tommy | Tommy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | iobj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | no pudding | Tommy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tommy=Recipient |
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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