The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 168

‘Oh, don’t tar and feather me, please!

Who acts: you · What happens: not tar · To what, where: feather

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 tar	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 tar	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 tar	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tar	advmod
6	tar	tar	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 feather	cc
8	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tar	obj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 feather	nmod:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tar	punct
11	please	please	INTJ	_	6 tar	discourse
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 tar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tar	imperative · do-support	you not said here	feather me					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent feather=Destination

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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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