More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 146
"Butcher, kill the big, big Coo, She'll gi'e us no more milk noo."
Who acts: you, mother · What happens: kill, gi'e · To what, where: big big Coo, us
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 | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 2 | Butcher | butcher | INTJ | _ | 4 kill | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Butcher | punct |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Coo | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Coo | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 big | punct |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Coo | amod |
| 9 | Coo | coo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kill | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gi'e | punct |
| 11 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gi'e | nsubj |
| 12 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 gi'e | aux |
| 13 | gi'e | gi'e | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kill | conj |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 gi'e | obj |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 noo | amod |
| 17 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 noo | compound |
| 18 | noo | noo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gi'e | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the big big Coo | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coo=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gi'e in a quote | future | mother | us | 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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