Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 52

"You will not get any whisp of straw from us," said the threshers, "until you bring us the makings of a cake from the miller over yonder."

Who acts: You, threshers, cake · What happens: not get, say, bring, make · To what, where: whisp, makings, us, miller · 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, threshers, cake), 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	14 said	ccomp
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 whisp	det
7	whisp	whisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 straw	case
9	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whisp	nmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 us	case
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 straw	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 threshers	det
16	threshers	thresher	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bring	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 bring	punct
19	until	until	SCONJ	_	21 bring	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 bring	nsubj
21	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 bring	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 makings	det
24	makings	making	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bring	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 cake	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cake	det
27	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 makings	nmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 miller	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 miller	det
30	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bring	obl
31	over	over	ADP	_	32 yonder	case
32	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	21 bring	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not get in a quote	future	You	any whisp of straw from us			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whisp=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the threshers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bring in a quote	present	you	the makings of a cake	us	the miller	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination making=Theme
4	make in a quote		a cake				nom making «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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