English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 18

Here he was soon seen by the cook-maid, who was an ill-tempered creature, and happened just then to be very busy dressing dinner for her master and mistress; so she called out to poor Dick: “What business have you there, you lazy rogue? there is nothing else but beggars; if you do not take yourself away, we will see how you will like a sousing of some dish-water; I have some here hot enough to make you jump.”

Who acts: cook maid, mistress, business, you, we, gentleman · What happens: see, temper, be, happen, call out, have · To what, where: Dick, tempered creature, busy dressing dinner, poor Dick, yourself, sousing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook maid, mistress, business, 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 seen	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seen	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux:pass
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 seen	advmod
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 maid	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maid	det
8	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 maid	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 cook	punct
10	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 creature	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 creature	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 creature	cop
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 creature	det
15	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tempered	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 ill	punct
17	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 creature	amod
18	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 maid	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 happened	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 happened	cc
21	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	parataxis
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 then	advmod
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 dinner	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	29 dinner	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 dinner	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 busy	advmod
27	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dinner	amod
28	dressing	dressing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dinner	compound
29	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 happened	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 master	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 master	nmod:poss
32	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dinner	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 mistress	cc
34	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 master	conj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 called	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	38 called	advmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 called	nsubj
38	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 happened	conj
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 called	compound:prt
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 Dick	case
41	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Dick	amod
42	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 called	obl
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	47 have	punct
44	“	"	PUNCT	_	47 have	punct
45	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	46 business	det
46	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 have	nsubj
47	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	conj
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 have	nsubj
49	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 have	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 rogue	punct
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 rogue	nsubj
52	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 rogue	amod
53	rogue	rogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 have	obl
54	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct
55	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	56 is	expl
56	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux:pass
57	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	56 is	nsubj
58	else	else	ADV	_	57 nothing	advmod
59	but	but	CCONJ	_	60 beggars	cc
60	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 nothing	conj
61	;	;	PUNCT	_	66 take	punct
62	if	if	SCONJ	_	66 take	mark
63	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	66 take	nsubj
64	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	66 take	aux
65	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	66 take	advmod
66	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seen	parataxis
67	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	66 take	obj
68	away	away	ADV	_	66 take	advmod
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 see	punct
70	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	72 see	nsubj
71	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	72 see	aux
72	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	66 take	advcl
73	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	76 like	advmod
74	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	76 like	nsubj
75	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	76 like	aux
76	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	72 see	ccomp
77	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	78 sousing	det
78	sousing	sousing	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 like	obj
79	of	of	ADP	_	83 water	case
80	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	83 water	det
81	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 water	compound
82	-	-	PUNCT	_	81 dish	punct
83	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 sousing	nmod
84	;	;	PUNCT	_	86 have	punct
85	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	86 have	nsubj
86	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	66 take	conj
87	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	89 hot	nsubj
88	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	89 hot	advmod
89	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	86 have	ccomp
90	enough	enough	ADV	_	89 hot	advmod
91	to	to	PART	_	92 make	mark
92	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	89 hot	advcl
93	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	92 make	obj
94	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	92 make	xcomp
95	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct
96	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive	the cook maid	Dick		here		soon property	tree rules
2	temper	participle							tree rules
3	is a	past	the cook maid	a tempered creature					tree rules
4	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive		busy dressing dinner			then	for maid's master and mistress	tree rules
6	call out speech: assert	past	mistress		poor Dick				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to dick=Recipient
7	have in a quote	present	what business			there			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	rogue in a quote		you						tree rules
9	not take away a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	you	yourself				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme
10	see in a quote	future	we						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	like in a quote	future	you	a sousing of some dish water					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sousing=Theme
12	have in a quote	present	the gentleman = gentleman						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
13	make in a quote	to-infinitive	the gentleman = gentleman not said here	you					tree rules
14	jump in a quote	infinitive	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
15	souse in a quote			some dish water					nom sousing «act transitive»: of=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: «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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