English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 5
“You're rather tough,” says he; “but you're all I've got for supper, and you'll not taste bad boiled.
Who acts: You · What happens: be, say, get, not taste, boil · To what, where: Mr. · 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 (You), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tough | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tough | nsubj |
| 3 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tough | cop |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 tough | advmod |
| 5 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 says | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tough | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tough | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 got | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 14 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 got | aux |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 got | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 17 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 got | aux |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 says | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 supper | case |
| 20 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 taste | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 taste | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 taste | nsubj |
| 24 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 taste | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 taste | advmod |
| 26 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | conj |
| 27 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 taste | xcomp |
| 28 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 taste | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | tough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Mr. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present · perfect | you | for supper; all property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for supper=Source | ||||
| 4 | not taste in a quote | future | you | bad property | vn see-30.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | boil in a quote | participle | you 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/36/5/