Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 32
"You will not get me," said the hound, "until you get a bit of butter to put in my claw."
Who acts: You, hound · What happens: not get, say, get, put · To what, where: hound, bit, claw · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Munachar and Manachar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, hound), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hound | det |
| 11 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bit | det |
| 18 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 butter | case |
| 20 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bit | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 put | mark |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 get | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 claw | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 claw | nmod:poss |
| 25 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | future | You | the hound = hound | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the hound | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present | you | a bit of butter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | put in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | my claw | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in claw=Destination |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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