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Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 55

So the ass put his fore-hoofs on the sill of the window, the dog got on the ass's head, the cat on the dog's head, and the cock on the cat's head.

Who acts: ass, dog · What happens: put, get · To what, where: fore hoofs, sill, head

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ass, dog), 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

advmoddetnsubjnmod:posscompoundpunctobjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctdetnsubjconjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctdetconjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctccdetoblcasedetnmod:posscasenmodpunctrootSoADVtheDETassNOUNputVERBhisPRONforeNOUN-PUNCThoofsNOUNonADPtheDETsillNOUNofADPtheDETwindowNOUN,PUNCTtheDETdogNOUNgotVERBonADPtheDETassNOUN'sPARTheadNOUN,PUNCTtheDETcatNOUNonADPtheDETdogNOUN'sPARTheadNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETcockNOUNonADPtheDETcatNOUN'sPARTheadNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_4 putadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 assdet
3assassNOUNNumber=Sing4 putnsubj
4putputVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 hoofsnmod:poss
6foreforeNOUNNumber=Sing8 hoofscompound
7--PUNCT_6 forepunct
8hoofshoofNOUNNumber=Plur4 putobj
9ononADP_11 sillcase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 silldet
11sillsillNOUNNumber=Sing4 putobl
12ofofADP_14 windowcase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 windowdet
14windowwindowNOUNNumber=Sing11 sillnmod
15,,PUNCT_18 gotpunct
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 dogdet
17dogdogNOUNNumber=Sing18 gotnsubj
18gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 putconj
19ononADP_23 headcase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 assdet
21assassNOUNNumber=Sing23 headnmod:poss
22's'sPART_21 asscase
23headheadNOUNNumber=Sing18 gotobl
24,,PUNCT_26 catpunct
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 catdet
26catcatNOUNNumber=Sing23 headconj
27ononADP_31 headcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 dogdet
29dogdogNOUNNumber=Sing31 headnmod:poss
30's'sPART_29 dogcase
31headheadNOUNNumber=Sing18 gotobl
32,,PUNCT_35 cockpunct
33andandCCONJ_35 cockcc
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 cockdet
35cockcockNOUNNumber=Sing4 putobl
36ononADP_40 headcase
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 catdet
38catcatNOUNNumber=Sing40 headnmod:poss
39's'sPART_38 catcase
40headheadNOUNNumber=Sing35 cocknmod
41..PUNCT_4 putpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1putpastthe assass's fore hoofsthe sill of the windowthe cock on the cat's head oblvn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hoof=Theme on sill=Destination
2getpastthe dogthe ass's head and the caton the dog's headvn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on head=Source

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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