English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 4
When Mr. Miacca got Tommy inside, he pulled him out of the bag and set him down, and felt his arms and legs.
Who acts: Mr. · What happens: get, pull, set down, feel · To what, where: Tommy, bag, Mr., arms
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | Miacca | Miacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mr. | flat |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pulled | advcl |
| 5 | Tommy | Tommy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pulled | nsubj |
| 9 | pulled | pull | 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 pulled | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 bag | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bag | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bag | det |
| 14 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pulled | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pulled | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | obj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 felt | cc |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pulled | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 arms | nmod:poss |
| 23 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 felt | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 legs | cc |
| 25 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 arms | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Mr. | Tommy | inside property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tommy=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | pull | past | Mr. | Tommy | the bag | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out bag=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | set down | infinitive | Mr. not said here | Mr. | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | Mr. not said here | Mr.'s arms and legs | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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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