English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 26

She used to say: “You are under me, so look sharp; clean the spit and the dripping-pan, make the fires, wind up the jack, and do all the scullery work nimbly, or--” and she would shake the ladle at him.

Who acts: business, You · What happens: use, say, be, look, clean, make · To what, where: spit, fires, scullery work, ladle · 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 (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 say	mark
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 me	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 me	punct
7	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 me	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 me	cop
9	under	under	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 say	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 look	advmod
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	conj
14	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 look	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 clean	punct
16	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 spit	det
18	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clean	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pan	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pan	det
21	dripping	dripping	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pan	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 dripping	punct
23	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spit	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
25	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fires	det
27	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 make	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wind	punct
29	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fires	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	32 jack	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 jack	det
32	jack	jack	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wind	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 do	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 do	cc
35	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 make	conj
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 work	det:predet
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 work	det
38	scullery	scullery	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 work	compound
39	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 do	obj
40	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	_	35 do	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 ”	punct
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 ”	cc
43	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 or	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 shake	cc
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 shake	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 shake	aux
48	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 ladle	det
50	ladle	ladle	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 shake	obj
51	at	at	ADP	_	52 him	case
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 shake	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	past	business			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	business not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	You		under business	tree rules
4	look in a quote	infinitive	business not said here		sharp property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	clean in a quote	infinitive	business not said here	the spit and the dripping pan		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spit=Patient
6	make in a quote	infinitive		the fires and wind up the jack		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product
7	do in a quote	infinitive		all scullery work	nimbly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
8	shake	would	business	the ladle	at Dick	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ladle=Theme at he=Trajectory

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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