More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 144

"Hout!" says his mother, "go to the Butcher and bid him kill Coo."

Who acts: mother · What happens: hout, say, go, bid, kill · To what, where: Butcher, Coo · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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 Hout	punct
2	Hout	hout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hout	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hout	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Butcher	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Butcher	det
13	Butcher	Butcher	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bid	cc
15	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 go	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bid	obj
17	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 bid	xcomp
18	Coo	Coo	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 kill	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hout in a quote	infinitive				tree rules
2	say speech: express	present	Coo's mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	infinitive			the Butcher	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to butcher=Initial_Location
4	bid in a quote	past		Coo		tree rules
5	kill in a quote	infinitive		Coo		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coo=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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