--- title: So she said: “Rat! rat! gnaw rope; rope won't hang butcher; butcher… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So she said: “Rat! rat! gnaw rope; rope won't hang butcher; butcher won't kill ox; ox won't drink water; water won't quench fire; fire won't burn stick; stick won't beat dog; dog won't bite pig; piggy won't get over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.” Who acts: rope, butcher, ox, water. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rope, butcher, ox, water), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:9:27 # text = So she said: “Rat! rat! gnaw rope; rope won't hang butcher; butcher won't kill ox; ox won't drink water; water won't quench fire; fire won't burn stick; stick won't beat dog; dog won't bite pig; piggy won't get over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.” 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 8 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 10 gnaw gnaw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 11 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 17 butcher butcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 butcher butcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 23 ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 27 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 29 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 33 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 quench quench VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 35 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 37 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 38 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 39 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 41 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 stick stick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 44 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 45 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 beat beat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 47 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ; ; PUNCT : _ 52 punct _ _ 49 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 50 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 51 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 52 advmod _ _ 52 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 53 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ; ; PUNCT : _ 58 punct _ _ 55 piggy piggy NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nsubj _ _ 56 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 57 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 58 advmod _ _ 58 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 59 over over ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 stile stile NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ; ; PUNCT : _ 67 punct _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 64 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 67 nsubj _ _ 65 sha sha AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 67 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 66 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 67 advmod _ _ 67 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 68 home home ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ _ 69 to to ADP IN _ 71 case _ SpaceAfter=No 70 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 69 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 71 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 67 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 73 ” " PUNCT '' _ 67 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | rope | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **gnaw** *in a quote* | present | | rope | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient | | 3 | **not** **hang** *in a quote* | future | rope | butcher | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butcher=Patient | | 4 | **not** **kill** *in a quote* | future | butcher | ox | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme | | 5 | **not** **drink** *in a quote* | future | ox | water | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 6 | **not** **quench** *in a quote* | future | water | fire | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer | | 7 | **not** **burn** *in a quote* | future | fire | stick | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | | 8 | **stick** *in a quote* | infinitive | rope *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **not** **beat** *in a quote* | future | Rat rat | dog | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme | | 10 | **not** **bite** *in a quote* | future | dog | pig | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient | | 11 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | future | piggy | | | the stile | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over stile=Destination | | 12 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | | rope | | | | night | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/28/) - ↑ back to [The Old Woman and Her Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/)