English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 40

“There,” exclaimed he; “take this stick, and when you say to it, 'Up stick and bang him,' it will knock any one down who angers you.”

Who acts: you, tree · What happens: exclaim, take, say, bang, knock down, anger · To what, where: man, stick, tree, one, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tree), 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 exclaimed	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 exclaimed	expl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 exclaimed	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
9	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 exclaimed	conj
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 stick	det
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 say	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 say	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 say	nsubj
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 exclaimed	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 say	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stick	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 stick	punct
21	Up	up	ADP	_	20 '	compound:prt
22	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bang	cc
24	bang	bang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 say	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bang	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knock	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 knock	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 knock	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 knock	aux
30	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 say	parataxis
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 knock	obj
33	down	down	ADP	_	30 knock	compound:prt
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 angers	nsubj
35	angers	anger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 knock	conj
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 angers	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past		man		there	tree rules
2	take in a quote	infinitive		this stick			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you	stick	tree		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient
4	bang in a quote	present	you not said here	man			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
5	knock down in a quote	future	tree	any one			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent one=Patient
6	anger in a quote	present		you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

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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