Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Old Dog, sentence 7
Run thou after me and bark, and though thou hast no teeth left, touzle me as much as thou canst, so that thy mistress may see it."
Who acts: you, thou, mistress · What happens: run, have, leave, touzle, see · To what, where: thou, teeth, me, bark
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Old Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou, mistress), 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 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Run | obj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Run | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bark | cc |
| 6 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 me | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 touzle | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 touzle | cc |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 hast | mark |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 hast | nsubj |
| 11 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 touzle | advcl |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 teeth | det |
| 13 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hast | obj |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 teeth | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hast | punct |
| 16 | touzle | touzle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Run | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 touzle | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 touzle | obj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 canst | mark |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 canst | nsubj |
| 22 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 19 much | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 see | punct |
| 24 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 see | mark |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 so | fixed |
| 26 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 see | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 see | aux |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 touzle | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 see | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | imperative | you not said here | thou | after me | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | have | present | thou | no teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | no teeth not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | touzle | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | may | thy mistress | bark | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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