English Fairy Tales, The Cat and the Mouse, sentence 4

“No,” says the cat, “I'll not give you your tail, till you go to the cow, and fetch me some milk.”

Who acts: cat, you · What happens: say, not give, go, fetch · To what, where: tail, you, milk, cat · 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 (cat, 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 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 give	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 give	advmod
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tail	nmod:poss
16	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	20 go	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
20	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 give	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 cow	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cow	det
23	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fetch	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fetch	cc
26	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 go	advcl
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 fetch	obj
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 milk	det
29	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fetch	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the cat				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not give in a quote	future	the cat = cat	your tail	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient tail=Theme
3	go in a quote	present	you			to the cow	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cow=Initial_Location
4	fetch in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	some milk	the cat = cat		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary milk=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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