English Fairy Tales, Master of All Masters, sentence 25

For white-faced simminy has got a spark of hot cockalorum on its tail, and unless you get some pondalorum high topper mountain will be all on hot cockalorum.” ....

Who acts: white faced simminy, you, some, hot cockalorum · What happens: get, mountain, spark · To what, where: spark, all

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Master of All Masters. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white faced simminy, you, some, hot cockalorum), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	7 got	mark
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 simminy	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 white	punct
4	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 simminy	amod
5	simminy	simminy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 got	aux
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 spark	det
9	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 cockalorum	case
11	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cockalorum	amod
12	cockalorum	cockalorum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spark	nmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 tail	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tail	nmod:poss
15	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cockalorum	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 get	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 get	cc
18	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	20 get	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 get	nsubj
20	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 got	parataxis
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 mountain	nsubj
22	pondalorum	pondalorum	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mountain	nsubj
23	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 mountain	amod
24	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mountain	compound
25	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	parataxis
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 all	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 all	cop
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 mountain	nmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 cockalorum	case
30	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cockalorum	amod
31	cockalorum	cockalorum	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 all	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 mountain	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 get	punct
34	....	....	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	present · perfect	white faced simminy	a spark of hot cockalorum on simminy's tail	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spark=Stimulus
2	get a condition, not said to happen	present	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	mountain		some	all	tree rules
4	spark		hot cockalorum on simminy's tail		nom spark «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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