English Fairy Tales, The Old Woman and Her Pig, sentence 30

So she said: “Cat! cat! kill rat; rat won't gnaw rope; rope won't hang butcher; butcher won't kill ox; ox won't 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: rat, Cat, rope, butcher, ox, water · What happens: say, kill, not gnaw, not hang, not kill, not drink · To what, where: rat, rope, butcher, ox, water, fire · 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 (rat, Cat, rope, butcher), 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 Cat	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Cat	punct
6	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kill	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 cat	punct
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Cat	appos
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 cat	punct
10	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
11	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kill	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 gnaw	punct
13	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gnaw	nsubj
14	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 gnaw	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 gnaw	advmod
16	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
17	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gnaw	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 hang	punct
19	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hang	nsubj
20	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hang	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 hang	advmod
22	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
23	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hang	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 kill	punct
25	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 kill	nsubj
26	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 kill	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 kill	advmod
28	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
29	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 kill	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 drink	punct
31	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 drink	nsubj
32	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 drink	aux
33	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 drink	advmod
34	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 kill	conj
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 drink	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 quench	punct
37	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 quench	nsubj
38	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 quench	aux
39	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 quench	advmod
40	quench	quench	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
41	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 quench	obj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 burn	punct
43	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 burn	nsubj
44	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 burn	aux
45	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 burn	advmod
46	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
47	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 burn	obj
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 stick	punct
49	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 burn	conj
50	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 beat	aux
51	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 beat	advmod
52	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 stick	ccomp
53	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 beat	obj
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 bite	punct
55	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 bite	nsubj
56	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 bite	aux
57	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	58 bite	advmod
58	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
59	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 bite	obj
60	;	;	PUNCT	_	64 get	punct
61	piggy	piggy	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 get	nsubj
62	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 get	aux
63	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	64 get	advmod
64	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
65	over	over	ADP	_	67 stile	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 stile	det
67	stile	stile	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 get	obl
68	;	;	PUNCT	_	73 get	punct
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 get	cc
70	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	73 get	nsubj
71	sha	sha	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	73 get	aux
72	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	73 get	advmod
73	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
74	home	home	ADV	_	73 get	advmod
75	to	to	ADP	_	77 night	case
76	-	-	PUNCT	_	75 to	punct
77	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 get	obl
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	73 get	punct
79	”	"	PUNCT	_	73 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	rat					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kill in a quote	infinitive	Cat	rat				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme
3	not gnaw in a quote	future	rat	rope				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient
4	not hang in a quote	future	rope	butcher				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butcher=Patient
5	not kill in a quote	future	butcher	ox				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme
6	not drink in a quote	future	ox	water				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
7	not quench in a quote	future	water	fire				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer
8	not burn in a quote	future	fire	stick				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
9	stick in a quote	infinitive	fire not said here					tree rules
10	not beat in a quote	future	fire not said here	dog				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme
11	not bite in a quote	future	dog	pig				vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient
12	not get in a quote	future	piggy		the stile			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over stile=Destination
13	not get in a quote		rat			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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