Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 16

But they thought he said, "Ma-lo, ma-lo[15]!"--"What!" said the bear, who was hiding behind the beeches with the other beasts, "here have we four been getting together all we could, and this pig-faced cat calls it too little!

Who acts: bear, cat, we, faced cat · What happens: think, say, hide, be, get together, call · To what, where: beeches, all, Ma · 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, cat, we, faced cat), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 thought	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Ma	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Ma	punct
8	Ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 lo	punct
10	lo	lo	INTJ	_	8 Ma	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ma	punct
12	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lo	appos
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 lo	punct
14	lo	lo	INTJ	_	12 ma	discourse
15	[	[	PUNCT	_	16 15	punct
16	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 lo	appos
17	]	]	PUNCT	_	16 15	punct
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 15	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 lo	punct
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 What	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 What	punct
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 said	obj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 What	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 What	punct
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bear	det
27	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hiding	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 hiding	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 hiding	aux
31	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 bear	acl
32	behind	behind	ADP	_	34 beeches	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 beeches	det
34	beeches	beech	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 hiding	obl
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 beasts	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 beasts	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 beasts	amod
38	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 hiding	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 here	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 here	punct
41	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 said	ccomp
42	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 here	cop
43	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 getting	nsubj
44	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 getting	nsubj
45	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 getting	aux
46	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 said	ccomp
47	together	together	ADV	_	46 getting	advmod
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 getting	obj
49	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 could	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 all	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 calls	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 calls	cc
53	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	57 cat	det
54	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 faced	compound
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 pig	punct
56	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 cat	amod
57	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 calls	nsubj
58	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 calls	obj
60	too	too	ADV	_	61 little	advmod
61	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 calls	xcomp
62	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	bear				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	cat				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the bear				tree rules
4	hide	past · progressive	the bear		the beeches	with the other beasts	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind beech=Location
5	is in a quote	present				here property	tree rules
6	get together in a quote	participle · progressive	we	all		together property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus
7	call in a quote	present	this faced cat	Ma		little property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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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