English Fairy Tales, Master of All Masters, sentence 15

“You must call her 'white-faced simminy.'

Who acts: You · What happens: call · To what, where: 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	“	"	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	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 call	obj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 faced	punct
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 faced	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 white	punct
9	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 simminy	amod
10	simminy	simminy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct
12	'	'	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		cat				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=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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