English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 9
“Oh, mother!” says she, “look at that horrid mallet!
What happens: say, look · To what, where: mother · 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: 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 says | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 says | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | ccomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 mallet | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 mallet | det |
| 14 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mallet | amod |
| 15 | mallet | mallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | mother | tree rules | |||||
| 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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