English Fairy Tales, The Old Woman and Her Pig, sentence 18
So she said: “Ox! ox! drink water; water won't quench fire; fire won't 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: water, Ox, fire, dog, piggy · What happens: say, drink, not quench, not burn, stick, not beat · To what, where: water, fire, stick, 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 (water, Ox, fire, dog), 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 | _ | 6 Ox | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ox | punct |
| 6 | Ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drink | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 ox | punct |
| 8 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Ox | appos |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 ox | punct |
| 10 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drink | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 quench | punct |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 quench | nsubj |
| 14 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 quench | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 quench | advmod |
| 16 | quench | quench | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 quench | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 burn | punct |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 burn | nsubj |
| 20 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 burn | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 burn | advmod |
| 22 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | parataxis |
| 23 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 burn | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stick | punct |
| 25 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 burn | conj |
| 26 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 beat | aux |
| 27 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 beat | advmod |
| 28 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 stick | ccomp |
| 29 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 beat | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 bite | punct |
| 31 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bite | nsubj |
| 32 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 bite | aux |
| 33 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 bite | advmod |
| 34 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 35 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bite | obj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 get | punct |
| 37 | piggy | piggy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 get | nsubj |
| 38 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 get | aux |
| 39 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 get | advmod |
| 40 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 41 | over | over | ADP | _ | 43 stile | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 stile | det |
| 43 | stile | stile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 get | obl |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 get | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 get | cc |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 get | nsubj |
| 47 | sha | sha | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 get | aux |
| 48 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 get | advmod |
| 49 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 50 | home | home | ADV | _ | 49 get | advmod |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 night | case |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 to | punct |
| 53 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 get | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 49 get | punct |
| 55 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | water | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | drink in a quote | infinitive | Ox | water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not quench in a quote | future | water | fire | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not burn in a quote | future | fire | stick | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stick in a quote | infinitive | fire not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not beat in a quote | future | fire not said here | dog | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not bite in a quote | future | dog | pig | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient | ||||
| 8 | not get in a quote | future | piggy | the stile | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over stile=Destination | ||||
| 9 | not get in a quote | water | 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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