More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 147

But the Butcher wouldn't kill the Coo without a silver penny, so back the Mannie went to the house. "

Who acts: Butcher, Mannie · What happens: not kill, go · To what, where: Coo, house

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 (Butcher, Mannie), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 kill	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Butcher	det
3	Butcher	Butcher	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kill	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 kill	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 kill	advmod
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Coo	det
8	Coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	obj
9	without	without	ADP	_	12 penny	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 penny	det
11	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 penny	compound
12	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 back	advmod
15	back	back	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Mannie	det
17	Mannie	Mannie	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kill	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 house	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 house	det
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kill	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not kill	would	the Butcher	the Coo				without a silver penny	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coo=Theme
2	go	past	the Mannie			the house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location

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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