More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 79
So at last the step-father said: "If you bring that bull-calf into this house, I'll kill it."
Who acts: last step father, you · What happens: say, bring, kill · To what, where: bull calf, house, Calf · 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 (last step father, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 father | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 father | det |
| 5 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 father | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 step | punct |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 kill | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 kill | punct |
| 11 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 bring | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | nsubj |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 kill | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 calf | det |
| 15 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 calf | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 bull | punct |
| 17 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 kill | nsubj |
| 23 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 kill | aux |
| 24 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 kill | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 kill | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the last step father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | that bull calf | this house | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent calf=Theme into house=Destination | |||
| 3 | kill in a quote | future | the last step father = father | Calf | vn remove-10.1 «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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