Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 56

Going looking for the makings of a cake which I will give to the threshers, the threshers to give me a whisp of straw, the whisp of straw I will give to the cow, the cow to give me milk, milk I will give to the 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, a gad to hang Manachar, who ate my raspberries every one."

Who acts: I, Manachar, cake · What happens: go, look, give, scrape, hunt, swim · To what, where: cake, threshers, whisp, me, cow, milk

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 (I, Manachar, 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	Going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Going	xcomp
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 makings	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 makings	det
5	makings	making	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looking	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 cake	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cake	det
8	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makings	nmod
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 give	obj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cake	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 threshers	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 threshers	det
15	threshers	thresher	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 give	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 threshers	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 threshers	det
18	threshers	thresher	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 threshers	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 give	mark
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 give	advcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 whisp	det
23	whisp	whisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 straw	case
25	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 whisp	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 whisp	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 whisp	det
28	whisp	whisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 whisp	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 straw	case
30	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obl
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 give	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 give	aux
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 whisp	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 cow	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cow	det
36	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 cow	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cow	det
39	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cow	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 give	mark
41	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 cow	acl
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 give	iobj
43	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 give	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 milk	punct
45	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cow	conj
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 give	nsubj
47	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 give	aux
48	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 milk	acl:relcl
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 cat	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 cat	det
51	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 give	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 cat	punct
53	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cow	conj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 scrape	mark
55	scrape	scrape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 give	advcl
56	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 scrape	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 butter	punct
58	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 butter	conj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 go	mark
60	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 scrape	advcl
61	in	in	ADP	_	62 claw	case
62	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 go	obl
63	of	of	ADP	_	64 hound	case
64	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 claw	nmod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 hound	punct
66	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 claw	conj
67	to	to	PART	_	68 hunt	mark
68	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 go	advcl
69	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 hunt	obj
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 deer	punct
71	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 deer	conj
72	to	to	PART	_	73 swim	mark
73	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	68 hunt	advcl
74	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 swim	obj
75	,	,	PUNCT	_	76 water	punct
76	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 water	conj
77	to	to	ADP	_	79 flag	case
78	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	79 flag	amod
79	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 swim	obl
80	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 flag	punct
81	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 flag	conj
82	to	to	PART	_	84 axe	mark
83	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	84 axe	compound
84	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 flag	conj
85	,	,	PUNCT	_	86 axe	punct
86	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	84 axe	conj
87	to	to	PART	_	88 cut	mark
88	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	86 axe	acl
89	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	90 rod	det
90	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	88 cut	obj
91	,	,	PUNCT	_	93 rod	punct
92	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	93 rod	det
93	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	84 axe	conj
94	to	to	PART	_	95 make	mark
95	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	93 rod	acl
96	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	97 gad	det
97	gad	gad	NOUN	Number=Sing	95 make	obj
98	,	,	PUNCT	_	100 gad	punct
99	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	100 gad	det
100	gad	gad	NOUN	Number=Sing	97 gad	appos
101	to	to	PART	_	102 hang	mark
102	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	100 gad	acl
103	Manachar	Manachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	106 ate	nsubj
104	,	,	PUNCT	_	106 ate	punct
105	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	106 ate	nsubj
106	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	102 hang	ccomp
107	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	108 raspberries	nmod:poss
108	raspberries	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	106 ate	obj
109	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	110 one	det
110	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	106 ate	obj
111	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Going	punct
112	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	gerund						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	gerund					for the makings of a cake	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for making=Theme
3	give	future	I	a cake	the threshers and the threshers			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to thresher=Recipient
4	give	to-infinitive	I not said here	a whisp of straw and the whisp	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient whisp=Theme
5	give	future	I	the whisp not said here	the cow and the cow and milk and cat		of straw	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent whisp=Theme to cow=Recipient
6	give	to-infinitive	I not said here	milk	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient milk=Theme
7	give	future	I	milk not said here	the cat			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme to cat=Recipient
8	scrape	to-infinitive	I not said here	butter and butter				vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Patient
9	go	to-infinitive	I not said here			claw of hound and hound		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in claw=Location
10	hunt	to-infinitive	I not said here	deer and deer				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme
11	swim	to-infinitive	I not said here	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
12	cut	to-infinitive	I not said here	a rod				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rod=Product
13	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	a gad				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gad=Product
14	hang	to-infinitive	I not said here	a gad not said here				tree rules
15	eat	past	Manachar	my raspberries				tree rules
16	make		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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