English Fairy Tales, Master of All Masters, sentence 12
“You must call them 'squibs and crackers.'
Who acts: You · What happens: call · To what, where: Breeches · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Master of All Masters. 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 | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 call | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 squibs | punct |
| 7 | squibs | squib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 call | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 crackers | cc |
| 9 | crackers | cracker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 squibs | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | must | You | Breeches = breech | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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