Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 145

I wouldn't have the heart to take an eye out of a rat itself; I got half a dozen of them from the butcher, and only used three of them."

Who acts: I · What happens: not have, take, get, use · To what, where: heart, eye, rat, dozen, butcher, three

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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heart	det
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heart	acl
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 eye	det
10	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 rat	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 rat	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 rat	det
14	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obl
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	14 rat	nmod:unmarked
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 got	nsubj
18	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	parataxis
19	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	21 dozen	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dozen	det
21	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 got	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dozen	nmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 butcher	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 butcher	det
26	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 got	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 used	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 used	cc
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 used	advmod
30	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 got	conj
31	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 used	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 three	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not have	would	I	the heart		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
2	take	to-infinitive	I not said here	a eye	a rat rat	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme out rat=Initial_Location
3	get	past	I	half dozen of heart	the butcher	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dozen=Theme from butcher=Source
4	use	past	I not said here	three of heart		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient

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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