English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 24
When he got him there, Mr. Miacca dropped him out; and when he saw him, he said: “Ah, you're the youngster what served me and my missus that shabby trick, leaving us without any supper.
Who acts: Tommy, Miacca, you, youngster · What happens: get, drop out, see, say, be, serve · To what, where: Miacca, Tommy, youngster, us · 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 (Tommy, Miacca, you, youngster), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dropped | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | obj |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Miacca | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Miacca | Miacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dropped | nsubj |
| 9 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dropped | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 dropped | compound:prt |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 saw | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dropped | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 youngster | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 youngster | punct |
| 23 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 28 youngster | discourse |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ah | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 youngster | nsubj |
| 26 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 youngster | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 youngster | det |
| 28 | youngster | youngster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | ccomp |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 served | nsubj |
| 30 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 youngster | acl:relcl |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 served | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 missus | cc |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 missus | nmod:poss |
| 34 | missus | missus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 served | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 trick | mark |
| 36 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 trick | amod |
| 37 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 served | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 leaving | punct |
| 39 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 served | advcl |
| 40 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 leaving | obj |
| 41 | without | without | ADP | _ | 43 supper | case |
| 42 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 supper | det |
| 43 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 leaving | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Tommy | Miacca | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | drop out | past | Miacca Mr. | Tommy | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Tommy | Miacca | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Tommy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | you | the youngster | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | serve in a quote | past | the youngster | Tommy | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | leave in a quote | gerund | the youngster not said here | us | without any supper | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
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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