English Fairy Tales, Master of All Masters, sentence 16
And this now,” showing the fire, “what would you call this?”
Who acts: this, you · What happens: show, call · To what, where: fire, this · 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 (this, 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 | _ | 6 showing | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 showing | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 showing | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 showing | punct |
| 6 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 showing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 call | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 call | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 call | obj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 call | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 call | nsubj |
| 14 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 showing | parataxis |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 call | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 call | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 showing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show in a quote | gerund | this | the fire | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent fire=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | call speech: assert | would | you | this | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme this=Result |
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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