Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 114
Then they sent for an axe and made ready to cut it down, but the damsel came running up, and said, "Oh, darling little cherry-tree, darling little cherry-tree, so fair thou art!
Who acts: maidens, damsel, thou · What happens: send, make, cut down, come, run up, say · To what, where: tree · 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 (maidens, damsel, thou), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 axe | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 axe | det |
| 6 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 made | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cut | mark |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ready | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cut | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 cut | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 damsel | det |
| 17 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 19 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 came | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 running | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 tree | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 tree | punct |
| 26 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 32 tree | discourse |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Oh | punct |
| 28 | darling | darling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tree | amod |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tree | amod |
| 30 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tree | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 cherry | punct |
| 32 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | ccomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 tree | punct |
| 34 | darling | darling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 tree | amod |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 tree | amod |
| 36 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 tree | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 cherry | punct |
| 38 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tree | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 fair | punct |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 fair | advmod |
| 41 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 said | ccomp |
| 42 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 41 fair | nsubj |
| 43 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 fair | cop |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | maidens = maiden | then | for a axe | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | make | past | maidens = maiden not said here | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | cut down | to-infinitive | maidens = maiden not said here | tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the damsel | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | run up | gerund | the damsel not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | say speech: express | past | maidens = maiden not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | thou | fair property | tree rules |
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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