Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 84
Then she caressed and fondled him, and said, "Thou shouldst take a bath, my darling, and well wash thyself.
Who acts: wife, Thou · What happens: caress, fondle, say, take, wash · To what, where: Daniel, bath, thyself · 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 (wife, 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 caressed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caressed | nsubj |
| 3 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fondled | cc |
| 5 | fondled | fondle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caressed | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fondled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caressed | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 12 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 take | nsubj |
| 13 | shouldst | should | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bath | det |
| 16 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 darling | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 darling | nmod:poss |
| 19 | darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bath | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wash | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wash | cc |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 wash | advmod |
| 23 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 take | conj |
| 24 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 23 wash | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | caress | past | wife | then | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fondle | past | wife not said here | Daniel | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | wife not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | should | Thou | a bath and my darling | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wash in a quote | infinitive | Thou not said here | thyself | well property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thyself=Patient |
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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