English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 48

So he gets a sack, and puts Molly into it, and the cat and the dog beside her, and a needle and thread and shears, and hangs her up upon the wall, and goes to the wood to choose a stick.

Who acts: cat · What happens: get, put, shear, hang up, go, choose · To what, where: sack, Molly, wall, wood, stick

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 gets	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sack	det
5	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 puts	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 puts	cc
8	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	conj
9	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 puts	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 puts	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cat	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cat	det
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dog	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dog	det
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cat	conj
19	beside	beside	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dog	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 needle	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 needle	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 needle	det
24	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thread	cc
26	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 needle	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 shears	cc
28	shears	shear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hangs	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hangs	cc
31	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hangs	obj
33	up	up	ADP	_	31 hangs	compound:prt
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 wall	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wall	det
36	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hangs	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 goes	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 goes	cc
39	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 wood	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 wood	det
42	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 goes	obl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 choose	mark
44	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 goes	advcl
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 stick	det
46	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 choose	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gets	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	present	cat	a sack			a needle and thread obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sack=Stimulus
2	put	present	cat not said here		Molly	sack		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent molly=Goal
3	shear	present	cat not said here					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	hang up	present	cat not said here	Molly		the wall		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme upon wall=Destination
5	go	present	cat not said here			the wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
6	choose	to-infinitive	cat not said here	a stick				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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