More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 141
"Break, stick, break, And I'll gi'e ye a cake."
Who acts: you, mother · What happens: break, stick, gi'e · To what, where: ye
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | _ | 2 Break | punct |
| 2 | Break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stick | punct |
| 4 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Break | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 break | punct |
| 6 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Break | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gi'e | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gi'e | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 gi'e | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 gi'e | aux |
| 11 | gi'e | gi'e | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Break | conj |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 gi'e | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cake | det |
| 14 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gi'e | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Break | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | stick in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | break in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | gi'e in a quote | future | Coo's mother = mother | ye | tree rules |
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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