English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 23
But he couldn't always be good; and one day he went round the corner, and as luck would have it, he hadn't scarcely got round it when Mr. Miacca grabbed him up, popped him in his bag, and took him home.
Who acts: Tommy, Miacca · What happens: not be, go, have, not get, grab up, pop · To what, where: corner, Tommy, bag
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 (Tommy, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 good | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 good | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 good | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 good | advmod |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 good | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 good | cop |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 day | nummod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 good | parataxis |
| 14 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 corner | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 corner | det |
| 16 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 luck | case |
| 20 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obl |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 got | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 got | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 got | aux |
| 27 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 got | advmod |
| 28 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 29 got | advmod |
| 29 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 good | parataxis |
| 30 | round | round | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 got | obl |
| 32 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 35 grabbed | mark |
| 33 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Miacca | nmod:desc |
| 34 | Miacca | Miacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 grabbed | nsubj |
| 35 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 got | advcl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 grabbed | obj |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 grabbed | compound:prt |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 popped | punct |
| 39 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 good | conj |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 popped | obj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 bag | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 bag | nmod:poss |
| 43 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 popped | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 took | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 took | cc |
| 46 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 popped | conj |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 took | obj |
| 48 | home | home | ADV | _ | 46 took | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | could | Tommy | always, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Tommy | the corner | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round corner=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | have | would | Tommy not said here | corner | as luck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | not get | past · perfect | Tommy | corner | scarcely property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round it=Destination | |||
| 5 | grab up | past | Miacca Mr. | Tommy | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pop | past | Tommy not said here | Tommy | Tommy's bag | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 7 | take | past | Tommy not said here | Tommy | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=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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