English Fairy Tales, Master of All Masters, sentence 7
And what would you call this?” pointing to his bed.
Who acts: you · What happens: call, point · To what, where: this, bed · 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 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 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 bed | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bed | bed | 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 | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | point in a quote | gerund | you not said here | gentleman's bed | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bed=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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