English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 18
“But it's not often the likes of me gets pudding.”
Who acts: d'ye, likes · What happens: not be, get · To what, where: likes, pudding
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 (d'ye, likes), 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 | _ | 11 gets | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 likes | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 likes | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 likes | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 likes | advmod |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 likes | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 likes | det |
| 8 | likes | like | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gets | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 likes | nmod |
| 11 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gets | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gets | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | d'ye | the likes | of Mrs.; often property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get in a quote | present | the likes | pudding | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pudding=Stimulus |
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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