English Fairy Tales, Master of All Masters, sentence 13

And what would you call her?” pointing to the cat.

Who acts: you · What happens: call, point · To what, where: girl, cat · 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 call	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 call	obj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 call	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 call	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 call	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 call	punct
9	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 call	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 cat	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pointing	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	would	you	girl					tree rules
2	point in a quote	gerund	you not said here		the cat				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cat=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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