Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 89
And when his benefactress saw him, she said, "Why, if poor unlucky Daniel hasn't fallen into a scrape again."
Who acts: benefactress, poor unlucky Daniel · What happens: see, say, not fall · To what, where: horse, scrape · 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 (benefactress, poor unlucky 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 benefactress | nmod:poss |
| 4 | benefactress | benefactress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Why | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Why | punct |
| 12 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 said | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fallen | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 fallen | mark |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Daniel | amod |
| 16 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Daniel | amod |
| 17 | Daniel | Daniel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 fallen | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fallen | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 fallen | advmod |
| 20 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 scrape | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 scrape | det |
| 23 | scrape | scrape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fallen | obl |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 fallen | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | horse's benefactress | horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | benefactress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not fall a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect | poor unlucky Daniel | again | into a scrape result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into scrape=Result |
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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