More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 48

Catch it, Willie; catch it, man."

Who acts: you · What happens: catch · To what, where: Bannock

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. 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	Catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Catch	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Willie	punct
4	Willie	Willie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Catch	vocative
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 catch	punct
6	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Catch	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 catch	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	vocative
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Catch	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Catch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	imperative	you not said here	Bannock				Willie vocative	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	catch	infinitive	you not said here	Bannock				man vocative	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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