English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 9
So Mrs. Miacca came out of another room and said: “What d'ye want, my dear?”
Who acts: Mrs., d'ye · What happens: come out, say, want · To what, where: room · 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 (Mrs., d'ye), 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 | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | Miacca | Miacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mrs. | flat |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 want | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 want | punct |
| 13 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 want | obj |
| 14 | d'ye | d'ye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 want | nsubj |
| 15 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dear | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dear | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | parataxis |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 dear | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | Mrs. | another room | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Mrs. not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | d'ye | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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