English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 27
Here, get under the sofa, and I'll set on it and watch the pot boil for you.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: get, set, watch · To what, where: sofa, pot boil
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 (you, I), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 get | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 sofa | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sofa | det |
| 6 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 set | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | aux |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 get | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 watch | cc |
| 15 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boil | det |
| 17 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 boil | compound |
| 18 | boil | boil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 watch | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 watch | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | imperative | you not said here | the sofa; here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | set | future | I | sofa | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | watch | infinitive | I not said here | the pot boil | for you | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent boil=Location for you=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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