English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 30
So Tommy put out a leg, and Mr. Miacca got a chopper, and chopped it off, and pops it in the pot.
Who acts: Tommy, Mr. · What happens: put out, get, chop off, pop · To what, where: leg, chopper, pot
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, Mr.), 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 | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | Tommy | Tommy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 leg | det |
| 6 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 9 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 got | nsubj |
| 10 | Miacca | Miacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mr. | flat |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chopper | det |
| 13 | chopper | chopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chopped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 chopped | cc |
| 16 | chopped | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 chopped | obj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 chopped | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pops | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pops | cc |
| 21 | pops | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pops | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 pot | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pot | det |
| 25 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pops | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | past | Tommy | a leg | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent leg=Goal | ||||
| 2 | get | past | Mr. | a chopper | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chopper=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | chop off | past | Tommy not said here | chopper | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pop | present | Tommy not said here | chopper | the pot | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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