Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 64
Then the people began to whisper, "Is there none here who knows her?
Who acts: people, none · What happens: begin, whisper, be, know · To what, where: Lady · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, none), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 whisper | mark |
| 6 | whisper | whisper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
| 9 | Is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | parataxis |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 Is | expl |
| 11 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 Is | nsubj |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 none | advmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 knows | nsubj |
| 14 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 none | acl:relcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knows | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the people | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | to-infinitive | the people not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | none | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | Lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=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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