English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 31

“Oh, you poor silly!” said the gentleman, “you should cut the grass and throw it down to the cow!”

Who acts: poor silly, you · What happens: say, cut, throw down · To what, where: gentleman, grass, cow · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (poor silly, 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	_	6 silly	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 silly	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 silly	nsubj
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 silly	amod
6	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 silly	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 silly	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gentleman	det
11	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 cut	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 cut	aux
16	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 grass	det
18	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 throw	cc
20	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 cut	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 throw	obj
22	down	down	ADP	_	20 throw	compound:prt
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 cow	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cow	det
25	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 throw	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	poor silly	the gentleman		tree rules
2	cut in a quote	should	you	the grass		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Product
3	throw down in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	grass	the cow	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to cow=Destination

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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