More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 95

Eat out of my right ear," says the Black Bull, "and drink out of my left ear, and set by your leaving."

Who acts: you, your · What happens: eat out, say, drink out, set, leave · To what, where: right ear, Black Bull, left ear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	6 ear	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 ear	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ear	nmod:poss
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ear	amod
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Eat	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Bull	det
11	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Bull	amod
12	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Bull	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Bull	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drink	cc
16	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Eat	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	21 ear	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 ear	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 ear	nmod:poss
20	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ear	amod
21	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drink	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 set	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 set	cc
24	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Eat	conj
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	27 leaving	mark
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 leaving	nsubj
27	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 set	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Eat	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat out	imperative	you not said here	my right ear	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present		the Black Bull	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bull=Topic
3	drink out	infinitive	you not said here	my left ear	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
4	set	infinitive	you not said here		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	leave	gerund	your		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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