English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 40

“Fetch your cat then, my lad,” said Mr. Fitzwarren, “and let her go.”

Who acts: Fitzwarren, Mr. · What happens: fetch, say, let, go · To what, where: cat, Mr. · 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 (Fitzwarren, Mr.), 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	_	2 Fetch	punct
2	Fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cat	nmod:poss
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fetch	obj
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Fetch	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lad	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lad	nmod:poss
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fetch	vocative
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fetch	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fetch	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Fitzwarren	nmod:desc
13	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 let	cc
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fetch in a quote	infinitive		your cat	then	my lad vocative	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Fitzwarren Mr.				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let in a quote	infinitive		Mr.			tree rules
4	go in a quote	infinitive	Mr. not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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