Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Nobles and Princes], sentence 8
"Well, little mother," said they, "we will take this daughter away with us."--"What! take a slattern like that?
Who acts: little mother, daughter · What happens: say, take away, take · To what, where: daughter, slattern · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Nobles and Princes]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little mother, daughter), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mother | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 mother | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mother | amod |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mother | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mother | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 they | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 daughter | det |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 take | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 What | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 What | punct |
| 24 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 take | obj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 What | punct |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 slattern | det |
| 28 | slattern | slattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 take | obj |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 that | case |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 take | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | little mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take away in a quote | future | daughter | this daughter | with us; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | |||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | a slattern | like that | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme slattern=Destination |
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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