English Fairy Tales, The Cat and the Mouse, sentence 7
“No,” said the cow, “I will give you no milk, till you go to the farmer, and get me some hay.”
Who acts: cow, you · What happens: say, give, go, get · To what, where: milk, you, hay, cow · 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 (cow, 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 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cow | det |
| 7 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | 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 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 milk | det |
| 15 | milk | milk | 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 | 12 give | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 farmer | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 farmer | det |
| 22 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 get | cc |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 give | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 get | obj |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 hay | det |
| 28 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the cow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | the cow = cow | no milk | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient milk=Theme | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | you | to the farmer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farmer=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | infinitive | the cow = cow not said here | some hay | the cow = cow | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary hay=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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