More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 87

"What! you dirty impudent slut," said the cook, "you go among all the fine lords and ladies with your filthy catskin? a fine figure you'd cut!" and with that she took a basin of water and dashed it into Catskin's face.

Who acts: you, dirty impudent slut, slut · What happens: slut, say, go, cut, take, dash · To what, where: cook, fine figure, basin, face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dirty impudent slut, slut), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 said	obj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 slut	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 slut	nsubj
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 slut	amod
6	impudent	impudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 slut	amod
7	slut	slut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 slut	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 slut	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cook	det
12	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
17	among	among	ADP	_	21 lords	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 lords	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lords	det
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lords	amod
21	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 go	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ladies	cc
23	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lords	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 catskin	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 catskin	nmod:poss
26	filthy	filthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 catskin	amod
27	catskin	catskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 figure	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 figure	det
30	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 figure	amod
31	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 cut	nsubj
33	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 cut	aux
34	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 figure	acl:relcl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 cut	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 cut	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 took	cc
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 that	case
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 took	obl
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 took	nsubj
41	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 cut	conj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 basin	det
43	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 took	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 water	case
45	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 basin	nmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 dashed	cc
47	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 took	conj
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 dashed	obj
49	into	into	ADP	_	52 face	case
50	Catskin	Catskin	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 face	nmod:poss
51	's	's	PART	_	50 Catskin	case
52	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 dashed	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	slut in a quote		you			tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	dirty impudent slut	the cook		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme cook=Manner
3	go in a quote	present	you	a fine figure	among all fine lords and ladies; with your filthy catskin	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with catskin=Beneficiary
4	cut in a quote	would	you	a fine figure not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Product
5	take	past	slut	a basin of water	with that	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basin=Theme
6	dash	past	slut not said here	cook	into Catskin's face result	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into face=Result

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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