English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 17
“Ah, I loves pudding,” says Mrs. Miacca.
Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: love, say · To what, where: pudding · 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.), 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 | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 loves | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 loves | nsubj |
| 5 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | ccomp |
| 6 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loves | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 loves | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 loves | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 11 | Miacca | Miacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Mrs. | flat |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love in a quote | present | Mrs. | pudding | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pudding=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Mrs. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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