Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 107
"Feet off my sheep, you anointed rogue! and what would you be taking their feet off for?"
Who acts: Feet, you · What happens: anoint, take · To what, where: rogue, feet
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Feet, you), 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 Feet | punct |
| 2 | Feet | feet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 anointed | nsubj |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 sheep | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Feet | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Feet | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 anointed | nsubj |
| 8 | anointed | anoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | rogue | rogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 anointed | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 rogue | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 taking | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 taking | obj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 taking | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 taking | nsubj |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 taking | aux |
| 16 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 anointed | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 feet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 taking | obj |
| 19 | off | off | ADV | _ | 16 taking | advmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 off | case |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 taking | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anoint in a quote | past | Feet off my sheep | rogue | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rogue=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | would · progressive | you | beginning's feet | off property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme foot=Destination |
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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