Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 97

"Come, be off, you lazy strollers!" says he, "while a cat 'ud be licking her ear, or I'll let the dogs at you."

Who acts: you, ud, I · What happens: come off, be, stroller, say, lick, let · To what, where: Jack, ear, dogs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, ud, I), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 says	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 off	punct
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 off	cop
5	off	off	ADV	_	2 Come	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 strollers	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 strollers	nsubj
8	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 strollers	amod
9	strollers	stroller	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Come	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 says	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 he	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 he	punct
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 licking	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cat	det
18	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ud	nmod:poss
19	'	's	PART	_	18 cat	case
20	ud	ud	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 licking	nsubj
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 licking	aux
22	licking	lick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 says	advcl
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ear	nmod:poss
24	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 licking	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 let	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 let	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 let	nsubj
28	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 let	aux
29	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 says	ccomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dogs	det
31	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 let	obj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 let	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 let	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come off in a quote	infinitive				vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	infinitive			off property	tree rules
3	stroller in a quote		you			tree rules
4	say speech: express	present		Jack		tree rules
5	lick in a quote	infinitive · progressive	a cat's ud	ud's ear		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent ear=Source
6	let in a quote	future	I	the dogs	at you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent dog=Theme at you=Asset

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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