English Fairy Tales, The Old Woman and Her Pig, sentence 12

So she said: “Fire! fire! burn stick; stick won't beat dog; dog won't bite pig; piggy won't get over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.”

Who acts: stick, dog, piggy · What happens: say, stick, not beat, not bite, not get · To what, where: dog, pig, stile · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Old Woman and Her Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stick, dog, piggy), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 fire	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Fire	punct
6	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fire	compound
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Fire	punct
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stick	compound
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 fire	punct
10	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stick	compound
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 stick	punct
13	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
14	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 beat	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 beat	advmod
16	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stick	ccomp
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beat	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 bite	punct
19	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bite	nsubj
20	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bite	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 bite	advmod
22	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
23	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bite	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 get	punct
25	piggy	piggy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	nsubj
26	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 get	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 get	advmod
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
29	over	over	ADP	_	31 stile	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 stile	det
31	stile	stile	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 get	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 get	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 get	nsubj
35	sha	sha	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 get	aux
36	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 get	advmod
37	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
38	home	home	ADV	_	37 get	advmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 night	case
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 to	punct
41	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 get	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 get	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	stick					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stick in a quote	infinitive	stick not said here					tree rules
3	not beat in a quote	future	stick not said here	dog				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme
4	not bite in a quote	future	dog	pig				vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient
5	not get in a quote	future	piggy		the stile			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over stile=Destination
6	not get in a quote		stick			night	home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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