English Fairy Tales, The Old Woman and Her Pig, sentence 33
But the cow said to her: “If you will go to yonder hay-stack, and fetch me a handful of hay, I'll give you the milk.”
Who acts: cow, woman · What happens: say, go, fetch, give · To what, where: woman, hay stack, handful, cow, milk · 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 (cow, woman), 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 cow | det |
| 3 | cow | cow | 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 | _ | 17 stack | case |
| 14 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 17 stack | advmod |
| 15 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stack | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 hay | punct |
| 17 | stack | stack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fetch | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fetch | cc |
| 20 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | parataxis |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 fetch | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 handful | det |
| 23 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fetch | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 hay | case |
| 25 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 handful | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 give | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 give | nsubj |
| 28 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 give | aux |
| 29 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 give | iobj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 milk | det |
| 32 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 give | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the cow | woman | 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 | woman | hay stack | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stack=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | fetch in a quote | infinitive | a handful of hay | the cow = cow | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary handful=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | future | the cow = cow | the milk | woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient milk=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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