English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 24

“Ham and eggs for me!” exclaimed Jack.

Who acts: Ham · What happens: exclaim · 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 (Ham), 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	_	2 Ham	punct
2	Ham	ham	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exclaimed	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 eggs	cc
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Ham	conj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Ham	nmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ham	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ham	punct
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 exclaimed	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	Ham for me and eggs	Jack					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jack=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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