More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 64

A dog and a cat agoing to be hung!"

Who acts: dog · What happens: ago, hang

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cat	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dog	conj
6	agoing	ago	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 dog	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	9 hung	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 hung	aux:pass
9	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 agoing	xcomp
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 hung	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ago	gerund	a dog and a cat not said here						tree rules
2	hang	to-infinitive · passive	a dog and a cat not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»

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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