Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 41

Going looking for a cat, cat to scrape butter, butter to go in claw of hound, hound to hunt deer, deer to swim water, water to wet flag, flag to edge axe, axe to cut a rod, a rod to make a gad, gad to hang Manachar, who ate my raspberries every one."

Who acts: Manachar · What happens: go, look, scrape, hunt, swim, cut · To what, where: butter, claw, deer, water, rod, gad

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 (Manachar), 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	Going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Going	xcomp
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 cat	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looking	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cat	punct
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cat	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 scrape	mark
9	scrape	scrape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looking	advcl
10	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scrape	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 butter	punct
12	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 butter	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 scrape	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 claw	case
16	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 hound	case
18	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 claw	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hound	punct
20	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 claw	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 hunt	mark
22	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	advcl
23	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hunt	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 deer	punct
25	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 deer	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 swim	mark
27	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 hunt	advcl
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 swim	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 water	punct
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 water	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 flag	case
32	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 flag	amod
33	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 swim	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 flag	punct
35	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flag	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	38 axe	mark
37	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 axe	compound
38	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 flag	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 axe	punct
40	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 axe	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 cut	mark
42	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 axe	acl
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 rod	det
44	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cut	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 rod	punct
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 rod	det
47	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flag	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 make	mark
49	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 rod	acl
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 gad	det
51	gad	gad	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 make	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 gad	punct
53	gad	gad	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 gad	conj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 hang	mark
55	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 gad	acl
56	Manachar	Manachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 ate	nsubj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 ate	punct
58	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 ate	nsubj
59	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 hang	ccomp
60	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 raspberries	nmod:poss
61	raspberries	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 ate	obj
62	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	63 one	det
63	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 ate	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Going	punct
65	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	gerund					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	gerund				for a cat and cat	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cat=Theme
3	scrape	to-infinitive		butter and butter			vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Patient
4	go	to-infinitive			claw of hound and hound		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in claw=Location
5	hunt	to-infinitive		deer and deer			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme
6	swim	to-infinitive		water and water		to wet flag and flag and edge axe and axe and a rod	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory
7	cut	to-infinitive		a rod			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rod=Product
8	make	to-infinitive		a gad and gad			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gad=Product
9	hang	to-infinitive		gad not said here			tree rules
10	eat	past	Manachar	my raspberries			tree rules

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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