English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 28
So poor Tommy Grimes had to creep under the sofa, and Mr. Miacca sat on it and waited for the pot to boil.
Who acts: poor Tommy Grimes, Miacca · What happens: have, creep, sit, wait, boil · To what, where: sofa
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 (poor Tommy Grimes, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Grimes | amod |
| 3 | Tommy | Tommy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Grimes | compound |
| 4 | Grimes | grime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 creep | mark |
| 7 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 sofa | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sofa | det |
| 10 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 creep | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sat | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sat | cc |
| 13 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Miacca | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Miacca | Miacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sat | nsubj |
| 15 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sat | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 waited | cc |
| 19 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sat | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 pot | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pot | det |
| 22 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 waited | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 boil | mark |
| 24 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 waited | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | poor Tommy Grimes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | creep | to-infinitive | poor Tommy Grimes not said here | the sofa | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sofa=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | Miacca Mr. | sofa | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location | ||||
| 4 | wait | past | Miacca Mr. not said here | for the pot | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | boil | to-infinitive | Miacca Mr. not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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