English Fairy Tales, Master of All Masters, sentence 18
“You must call it 'hot cockalorum,' and what this?” he went on, pointing to the water.
Who acts: You, gentleman · What happens: call, go on, point · To what, where: fire, water · 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, gentleman), 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 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cockalorum | punct |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cockalorum | amod |
| 8 | cockalorum | cockalorum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 call | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 what | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 call | advcl |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 what | nsubj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pointing | punct |
| 20 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 went | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pointing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert in a quote | must | You | fire | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | gentleman | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | point | gerund | gentleman not said here | the water | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to water=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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