English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 2

Now his mother used to say to him: “Tommy, Tommy, be a good boy, and don't go out of the street, or else Mr. Miacca will take you.”

Who acts: mother, Miacca · What happens: use, say, be, not go out, take · To what, where: Tommy, good boy, street · 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, Miacca), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 used	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Tommy	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 Tommy	punct
11	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Tommy	punct
13	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Tommy	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 boy	punct
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 boy	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 boy	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 boy	amod
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Tommy	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 go	cc
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 go	advmod
23	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 used	parataxis
24	out	out	ADP	_	27 street	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 street	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 street	det
27	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 take	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 take	cc
30	else	else	ADV	_	32 Miacca	advmod
31	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Miacca	nmod:desc
32	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 take	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 take	aux
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	conj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 take	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	use	past	Tommy's mother	Tommy and Tommy		now	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Tommy's mother not said here		Tommy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	infinitive		a good boy			tree rules
4	not go out in a quote	infinitive · do-support		the street			tree rules
5	take in a quote	future	Miacca Mr.		Tommy		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination

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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