Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 10
Never mind," said the bear, "I tell you what, we'll all four give a banquet, and invite the fox and the cat, and do for the pair of them.
Who acts: bear, I, we · What happens: not mind, say, tell, give, invite, do · To what, where: you, banquet, fox · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Fox and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, I, we), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 mind | advmod |
| 2 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mind | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 mind | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bear | det |
| 7 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 give | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | nsubj |
| 16 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 four | advmod |
| 18 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 give | nsubj |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tell | ccomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 banquet | det |
| 21 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 invite | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 invite | cc |
| 24 | invite | invite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fox | det |
| 26 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 invite | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 cat | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cat | det |
| 29 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fox | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 do | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 do | cc |
| 32 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 invite | parataxis |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 pair | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 pair | det |
| 35 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 do | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 pair | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | infinitive | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | give | future | we | a banquet | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banquet=Theme | ||||
| 5 | invite | infinitive | I not said here | the fox and the cat | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | do | infinitive | for the pair of bear | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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