English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 101
Well, what should there be but the funniest little black thing you ever set eyes on.
Who acts: funniest little black thing · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (funniest little black thing), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 be | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 be | obj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 be | aux |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 be | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 thing | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 9 | funniest | funny | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 thing | amod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thing | amod |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 be | nsubj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 on | nsubj |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 eyes | advmod |
| 15 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyes | amod |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 you | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 thing | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | should | the funniest little black thing | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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