Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 101
What dost thou ask for it?" said the Tsar.--"I ask five thousand roubles."
Who acts: thou, Tsar, I · What happens: ask, say · To what, where: thousand roubles · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, Tsar, 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 ask | obj |
| 2 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Tsar | det |
| 11 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | nsubj |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 thousand | compound |
| 18 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 roubles | nummod |
| 19 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ask | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present · do-support | thou | for fair | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Tsar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | I | thousand roubles | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rouble=Recipient |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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