English Fairy Tales, The Cat and the Mouse, sentence 10
“No,” says the farmer, “I'll give you no hay, till you go to the butcher and fetch me some meat.”
Who acts: farmer, you · What happens: say, give, go, fetch · To what, where: hay, you, butcher, meat, farmer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cat and the Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 farmer | det |
| 7 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 11 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 hay | det |
| 15 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 butcher | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 butcher | det |
| 22 | butcher | butcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fetch | cc |
| 24 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 fetch | obj |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 meat | det |
| 27 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fetch | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the farmer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | the farmer = farmer | no hay | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient hay=Theme | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | you | the butcher | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to butcher=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | fetch in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | some meat | the farmer = farmer | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary meat=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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