Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 122
Well," said he to her, "thou hast been a second mother to me, and now thou shalt be my second wife!"
Who acts: Tsar, thou · What happens: say, be · To what, where: damsel, second mother, me, second wife · 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 (Tsar, 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mother | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 mother | punct |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 mother | nsubj |
| 11 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mother | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 mother | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mother | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 mother | amod |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wife | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wife | cc |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 wife | advmod |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 wife | nsubj |
| 22 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 26 wife | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 wife | cop |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 wife | amod |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | parataxis |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 wife | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Tsar | damsel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present · perfect | thou | a second mother | me | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | shall | thou | my second wife | now | 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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