English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 30

She'll be quite safe, for I shall tie a string round her neck, and pass it down the chimney, and tie it to my wrist as I go about the house, so she can't fall off without my knowing it.”

Who acts: cow, I, my · What happens: be, tie, pass down, go, not fall off, know · To what, where: string, chimney

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 (cow, I, my), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 safe	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 safe	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 safe	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 safe	advmod
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tie	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 tie	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tie	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tie	aux
10	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 safe	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 string	det
12	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tie	obj
13	round	round	ADP	_	15 neck	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 neck	nmod:poss
15	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tie	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pass	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pass	cc
18	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tie	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pass	obj
20	down	down	ADP	_	18 pass	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chimney	det
22	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pass	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tie	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tie	cc
25	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tie	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tie	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 wrist	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wrist	nmod:poss
29	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tie	obl
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 go	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 go	nsubj
32	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 tie	advcl
33	about	about	ADP	_	35 house	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 house	det
35	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 go	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 fall	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	41 fall	advmod
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 fall	nsubj
39	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 fall	aux
40	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 fall	advmod
41	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 safe	parataxis
42	off	off	ADP	_	41 fall	compound:prt
43	without	without	SCONJ	_	45 knowing	mark
44	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 knowing	nsubj
45	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 fall	advcl
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 knowing	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 safe	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 safe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	future	cow		safe property	tree rules
2	tie	shall	I	a string	round cow's neck	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient
3	pass down	infinitive	I not said here	string		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient chimney=Theme
4	tie	infinitive	I not said here	chimney	to my wrist	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to wrist=Co-Patient
5	go	present	I		about the house	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about house=Location
6	not fall off	can	cow			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	know	gerund	my	chimney		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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