Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Nobles and Princes], sentence 9

Why, all the people will laugh at you!"--"Maybe they will," said they.--Then the old woman scolded, and wouldn't let her go. "

Who acts: people, woman · What happens: laugh, say, scold, not let, go · To what, where: old woman, woman · 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 (people, woman), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 laugh	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 laugh	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 people	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 laugh	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 laugh	aux
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 laugh	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 laugh	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 laugh	punct
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 will	punct
14	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	16 will	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 will	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 said	aux
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 will	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 will	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laugh	parataxis
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 woman	punct
23	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 woman	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 woman	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 woman	amod
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
27	scolded	scold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 woman	acl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 let	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 let	cc
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 let	aux
31	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 let	advmod
32	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 let	obj
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 let	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 let	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	future	all people		at you	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	future	people	the old woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	scold in a quote	participle		the old woman not said here		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not let in a quote	would		woman		tree rules
5	go in a quote	infinitive	woman not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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