The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 140

‘I must have threescore cattle killed,’ said she, ‘and cut up into quarters, and every time I look over my shoulder he must throw one of them into my mouth.’

Who acts: I, threescore cattle, noise, Irishman · What happens: have, kill, say, cut up, look, throw · To what, where: threescore cattle, time, shoulder, one, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, threescore cattle, noise, Irishman), 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	_	4 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	threescore	threescore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cattle	amod
6	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 have	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
13	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cut	cc
15	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	parataxis
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 cut	compound:prt
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 quarters	case
18	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cut	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 throw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 throw	cc
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 throw	obl:unmarked
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 look	nsubj
24	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 time	acl:relcl
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 shoulder	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 shoulder	nmod:poss
27	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 look	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 throw	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 throw	aux
30	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cut	parataxis
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 throw	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 one	nmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 mouth	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mouth	nmod:poss
36	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 throw	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 throw	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	must	I	threescore cattle				tree rules
2	kill	participle	threescore cattle not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	noise					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	cut up	participle					into quarters	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into quarter=Patient
5	look	present	I	every time not said here	my shoulder			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Attribute
6	throw	must	Irishman	one of quarters		time	into my mouth result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer one=Theme into mouth=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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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