English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 8
Here, I say, Sally!” and he called Mrs. Miacca.
Who acts: I, Sally · What happens: say, call · To what, where: Sally · 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 (I, Sally), 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 | 4 say | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sally | punct |
| 6 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sally | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sally | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 called | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | nsubj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | conj |
| 12 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 13 | Miacca | Miacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mrs. | flat |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | I | Sally | here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sally=Topic | |||
| 2 | call in a quote | past | Sally | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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