English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 110
“What's my name?” that says, as that gave her the skeins.
Who acts: that · What happens: be, say, give · To what, where: name, skeins, tail · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (that), 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 | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 name | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 name | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 gave | mark |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | ccomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 skeins | det |
| 16 | skeins | skein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gave | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | my name | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | present | that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | past | that | the skeins | tail | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient skein=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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