English Fairy Tales, The Cat and the Mouse, sentence 13

“No,” says the butcher, “I'll give you no meat, till you go to the baker and fetch me some bread.”

Who acts: butcher, you · What happens: say, give, go, fetch · To what, where: meat, you, baker, bread, butcher · 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 (butcher, 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 butcher	det
7	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
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 meat	det
15	meat	meat	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 baker	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 baker	det
22	baker	baker	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 bread	det
27	bread	bread	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	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the butcher				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	future	the butcher = butcher	no meat	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient meat=Theme
3	go in a quote	present	you			the baker	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to baker=Initial_Location
4	fetch in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	some bread	the butcher = butcher		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary bread=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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