Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 107
But the horse neighed and went to her, and said, "Look now! take the first drop of blood which flows from me, and bury it in the garden."
Who acts: horse, first drop · What happens: neigh, go, say, look, take, flow · To what, where: many, first drop, drop, garden · 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 (horse, first drop), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 neighed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 neighed | nsubj |
| 4 | neighed | neigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 neighed | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 neighed | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Look | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Look | punct |
| 14 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 Look | advmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Look | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 drop | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 drop | amod |
| 20 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 blood | case |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drop | nmod |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 flows | nsubj |
| 24 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 drop | acl:relcl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 flows | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bury | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 bury | cc |
| 29 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Look | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bury | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 garden | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 garden | det |
| 33 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bury | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 neighed | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 neighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neigh | past | the horse | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the horse not said here | many | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the horse not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | look in a quote | infinitive | now | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | take in a quote | infinitive | the first drop of blood | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme | |||||
| 6 | flow in a quote | present | the first drop of blood | from the horse = horse | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bury in a quote | infinitive | drop | the garden | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in garden=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: «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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