English Fairy Tales, The Old Woman and Her Pig, sentence 31

But the cat said to her, “If you will go to yonder cow, and fetch me a saucer of milk, I will kill the rat.”

Who acts: cat, rat · What happens: say, go, fetch, kill · To what, where: rat, saucer, cat · 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 (cat, rat), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
9	If	if	SCONJ	_	12 go	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 cow	case
14	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	15 cow	advmod
15	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fetch	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fetch	cc
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 go	parataxis
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 fetch	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 saucer	det
21	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fetch	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 milk	case
23	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saucer	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 kill	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 kill	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 kill	aux
27	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 fetch	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rat	det
29	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kill	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the cat		rat		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	rat			to cow	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cow=Initial_Location
3	fetch in a quote	infinitive		a saucer of milk	the cat = cat		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary saucer=Theme
4	kill in a quote	future	the cat = cat	the rat			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme

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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