English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 22
“Well, host,” shouted he, “my dinner to-day, and that of the best.”
Who acts: host · What happens: shout · To what, where: Jack
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (host), 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 | _ | 7 shouted | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 host | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shouted | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 host | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 host | punct |
| 7 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shouted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dinner | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 dinner | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shouted | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 to | punct |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dinner | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 best | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 best | cc |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 best | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 best | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 best | det |
| 21 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 shouted | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shouted | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | host | Jack | my dinner to day obl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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