English Fairy Tales, Master of All Masters, sentence 4
He said to her: “What will you call me?”
Who acts: gentleman, girl · What happens: say, call · To what, where: girl, gentleman · 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 (gentleman, girl), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 call | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 call | punct |
| 7 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 call | obj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 call | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 call | nsubj |
| 10 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | parataxis |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 call | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 call | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | gentleman | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | future | girl | gentleman | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme i=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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