More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 8

Catskin told the cook how much she would like to go to the ball, the cook called her "a dirty slut," and broke the skimmer across her head.

Who acts: Catskin, cook · What happens: tell, like, go, call, break · To what, where: cook, much, ball, catskin, skimmer, head · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Catskin, cook), 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	Catskin	Catskin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cook	det
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 like	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 like	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 like	aux
9	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 like	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 ball	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ball	det
14	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cook	det
17	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	nsubj
18	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 called	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 slut	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 slut	det
22	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 slut	amod
23	slut	slut	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 slut	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 slut	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 broke	cc
27	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 called	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 skimmer	det
29	skimmer	skimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 broke	obj
30	across	across	ADP	_	32 head	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 broke	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Catskin		the cook		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient clause=Topic
2	like	would	catskin	much			tree rules
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	catskin not said here			the ball	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial_Location
4	call	past	the cook		catskin		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	break	past	the cook not said here	the skimmer		catskin's head	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skimmer=Patient

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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