Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 12
I'll steal the man's mead; and you, Mr Wolf, steal his fat-pot; and you, Mr Wildboar, root up his fruit-trees; and you, Mr Bunny, go and invite the fox and the cat to dinner."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: steal, root up, go, invite · To what, where: mead, fat pot, fruit trees, fox
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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 steal | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 steal | aux |
| 3 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mead | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 man | case |
| 7 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 steal | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 steal | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 you | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 steal | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Mr | punct |
| 12 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 you | conj |
| 13 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mr | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 steal | punct |
| 15 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 steal | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pot | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pot | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 fat | punct |
| 19 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 steal | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 root | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 root | cc |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 root | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Mr | punct |
| 24 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 you | conj |
| 25 | Wildboar | Wildboar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Mr | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 you | punct |
| 27 | root | root | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 steal | advcl |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 root | compound:prt |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 trees | nmod:poss |
| 30 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 trees | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 fruit | punct |
| 32 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 root | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 go | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 go | cc |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 go | nsubj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 you | punct |
| 37 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 you | conj |
| 38 | Bunny | Bunny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Mr | flat |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Mr | punct |
| 40 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 steal | parataxis |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 invite | cc |
| 42 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 go | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 fox | det |
| 44 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 invite | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 cat | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 cat | det |
| 47 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 fox | conj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 dinner | case |
| 49 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 invite | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 steal | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 steal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | future | I | the man's mead | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mead=Theme | ||||
| 2 | steal | present | you | Mr's fat pot | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | root up | present | you | Mr's fruit trees | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | invite | infinitive | you not said here | the fox and the cat | to dinner | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient |
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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