Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 74
Find out for us wherein lies his strength, that we may destroy him and take thee away."--Then she began asking him, and he said to her, "Look now! all my strength is in these gloves."
Who acts: you, we, Lead, Daniel, strength · What happens: find out, lie, destroy, take away, begin, ask · To what, where: strength, Daniel, thee, Lead, gloves · 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 (you, we, Lead, Daniel), 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 | Find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Find | compound:prt |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 us | case |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Find | obl |
| 5 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 lies | advmod |
| 6 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Find | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 strength | nmod:poss |
| 8 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lies | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 destroy | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 destroy | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 destroy | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 destroy | aux |
| 13 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Find | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 destroy | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 destroy | conj |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 take | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Find | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Find | punct |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 began | punct |
| 22 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 began | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 began | nsubj |
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Find | parataxis |
| 25 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 began | xcomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 asking | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | nsubj |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 began | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Look | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Look | punct |
| 35 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 said | ccomp |
| 36 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 Look | advmod |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 Look | punct |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 strength | det:predet |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 strength | nmod:poss |
| 40 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 gloves | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 gloves | cop |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 gloves | case |
| 43 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 44 gloves | det |
| 44 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 Look | parataxis |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Find | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | imperative | you not said here | for us | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | you not said here | Daniel's strength | wherein property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location strength=Theme | |||
| 3 | destroy | may | we | Daniel | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take away | infinitive | we not said here | thee | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 5 | begin in a quote | past | Lead | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask in a quote | gerund | Lead not said here | Daniel | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Daniel | Lead | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | look | infinitive | now | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | is | present | my strength | this gloves | 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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