English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 14

“Why,” says the mother, “look at that horrid mallet.

Who acts: mother · What happens: say, look · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 says	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 says	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 mallet	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 mallet	det
13	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mallet	amod
14	mallet	mallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the mother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look in a quote	infinitive						at that horrid mallet	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mallet=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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