English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 64

“Bring this creature to me,” says he; “vermin are dreadful in a court, and if she will perform what you say, I will load your ship with gold and jewels in exchange for her.”

Who acts: vermin, news, you, I · What happens: bring, say, be, perform, load · To what, where: creature, me, King, court, ship, exchange · 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 (vermin, news, you, I), 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 Bring	punct
2	Bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	ccomp
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 creature	det
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bring	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Bring	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 says	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 dreadful	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 dreadful	punct
13	vermin	vermin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dreadful	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 dreadful	cop
15	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 says	ccomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 court	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 court	det
18	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dreadful	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 perform	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 perform	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 perform	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 perform	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 perform	aux
24	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 dreadful	conj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 perform	obj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 say	nsubj
27	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 what	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 load	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 load	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 load	aux
31	load	load	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 dreadful	conj
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 ship	nmod:poss
33	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 load	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 gold	case
35	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 load	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 jewels	cc
37	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 gold	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 exchange	case
39	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 load	obl
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 exchange	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring in a quote	infinitive		this creature	me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent creature=Theme to i=Destination
2	say speech: assert	present		King				tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	vermin			a court	dreadful property	tree rules
4	perform a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	news					vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
5	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	load in a quote	future	I	your ship		exchange for news	with gold and jewels	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ship=Theme in exchange=Destination

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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