English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 22

“What was that you were singing, my good woman?”

Who acts: you · What happens: sing · To what, where: good woman

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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 singing	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 singing	obj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 singing	aux
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 singing	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 singing	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 singing	aux
7	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 woman	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 woman	nmod:poss
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 singing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 singing	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 singing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express in a quote	past · progressive	you	my good woman					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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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