English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 29
I'm going to get the cow on to the roof to eat it.
Who acts: I · What happens: go, get on, eat · To what, where: cow, roof
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cow | det |
| 7 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 get | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 roof | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 roof | det |
| 11 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 get | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 eat | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get on | to-infinitive | I not said here | the cow | to the roof | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | I not said here | roof | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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