--- title: So she said: “Cat! cat! kill rat; rat won't gnaw rope; rope won't ha… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So she said: “Cat! cat! kill rat; rat won't 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: rat, Cat, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [The Old Woman and Her Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/) / 30 # English Fairy Tales, The Old Woman and Her Pig, sentence 30 So she said: “Cat! cat! kill rat; rat won't 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:** rat, Cat, rope, butcher, ox, water · **What happens:** say, kill, not gnaw, not hang, not kill, not drink · **To what, where:** rat, rope, butcher, ox, water, fire · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Old Woman and Her Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rat, Cat, rope, butcher), 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:pg7439:9:30 # text = So she said: “Cat! cat! kill rat; rat won't 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 : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 8 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 10 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 11 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 rat rat 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 gnaw gnaw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 17 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 rope rope 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 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 23 butcher butcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 butcher butcher 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 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 29 ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 ox ox 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 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 35 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 water water 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 quench quench VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 41 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ; ; PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 43 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 44 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 45 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 47 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ; ; PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 stick stick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 conj _ _ 50 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 51 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 52 advmod _ _ 52 beat beat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 ccomp _ _ 53 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ; ; PUNCT : _ 58 punct _ _ 55 dog dog 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 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 59 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 ; ; PUNCT : _ 64 punct _ _ 61 piggy piggy NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nsubj _ _ 62 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 64 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 63 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 64 advmod _ _ 64 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 65 over over ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 stile stile NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 68 ; ; PUNCT : _ 73 punct _ _ 69 and and CCONJ CC _ 73 cc _ _ 70 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 73 nsubj _ _ 71 sha sha AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 73 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 72 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 73 advmod _ _ 73 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 74 home home ADV RB _ 73 advmod _ _ 75 to to ADP IN _ 77 case _ SpaceAfter=No 76 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 75 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 77 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 78 . . PUNCT . _ 73 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 79 ” " PUNCT '' _ 73 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | rat | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **kill** *in a quote* | infinitive | Cat | rat | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | | 3 | **not** **gnaw** *in a quote* | future | rat | rope | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient | | 4 | **not** **hang** *in a quote* | future | rope | butcher | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butcher=Patient | | 5 | **not** **kill** *in a quote* | future | butcher | ox | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme | | 6 | **not** **drink** *in a quote* | future | ox | water | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 7 | **not** **quench** *in a quote* | future | water | fire | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer | | 8 | **not** **burn** *in a quote* | future | fire | stick | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | | 9 | **stick** *in a quote* | infinitive | fire *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **not** **beat** *in a quote* | future | fire *not said here* | dog | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme | | 11 | **not** **bite** *in a quote* | future | dog | pig | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient | | 12 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | future | piggy | | | the stile | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over stile=Destination | | 13 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | | rat | | | | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/31/) - ↑ back to [The Old Woman and Her Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/)