English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 19

“Why, my mother is making a pudding this very day,” said Tommy Grimes, “and I am sure she'd give you some, if I ask her.

Who acts: mother, Tommy, pudding · What happens: make, say, be, give, ask · To what, where: pudding, some, you · 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 (mother, Tommy, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 making	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 making	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 making	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 making	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 making	aux
7	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pudding	det
9	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 making	obj
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 day	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 day	advmod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 making	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 making	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 making	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
17	Grimes	Grimes	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Tommy	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sure	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 sure	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sure	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 sure	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sure	cop
23	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	conj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 give	nsubj
25	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 give	aux
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sure	ccomp
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 give	iobj
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 give	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ask	punct
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 ask	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 ask	nsubj
32	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 give	parataxis
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 ask	iobj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	present · progressive	my mother	a pudding		day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pudding=Product
2	say speech: assert	past	Tommy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	Tommy				sure property	tree rules
4	give in a quote	would	pudding	some	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient some=Theme
5	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Tommy		pudding			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=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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