Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 12
But in return for that," continued the Iron Wolf, "whenever thou dost sit down on the bridal bench,[17] I'll come and eat thee."--"Well," thought the servant to himself, "a lot of things may happen before I sit down on the bridal bench and he comes to eat me, and in the meantime I shall get all these cattle.
Who acts: thou, 17, lot, I, servant · What happens: continue, do, sit down, come, eat, think · To what, where: Iron Wolf, return, bridal bench, thee, servant, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, 17, lot, I), 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 | _ | 8 continued | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 return | case |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | obl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 return | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Wolf | det |
| 10 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Wolf | compound |
| 11 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dost | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 dost | punct |
| 14 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 dost | advmod |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 dost | nsubj |
| 16 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 continued | parataxis |
| 17 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dost | xcomp |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 sit | compound:prt |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 bench | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bench | det |
| 21 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bench | amod |
| 22 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sit | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 come | punct |
| 24 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 25 17 | punct |
| 25 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 come | nsubj |
| 26 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 25 17 | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 come | nsubj |
| 28 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | aux |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sit | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 eat | cc |
| 31 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 come | conj |
| 32 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 eat | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 dost | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 dost | punct |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 thought | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 thought | punct |
| 37 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 40 thought | discourse |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Well | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 thought | punct |
| 40 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 continued | parataxis |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 servant | det |
| 42 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 thought | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 himself | case |
| 44 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 thought | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 happen | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 happen | punct |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 lot | det |
| 48 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 happen | nsubj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 things | case |
| 50 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 lot | nmod |
| 51 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 happen | aux |
| 52 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 thought | conj |
| 53 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 55 sit | mark |
| 54 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 55 sit | nsubj |
| 55 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 happen | advcl |
| 56 | down | down | ADP | _ | 55 sit | compound:prt |
| 57 | on | on | ADP | _ | 60 bench | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 bench | det |
| 59 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 bench | amod |
| 60 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 sit | obl |
| 61 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 comes | cc |
| 62 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 comes | nsubj |
| 63 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 sit | conj |
| 64 | to | to | PART | _ | 65 eat | mark |
| 65 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 63 comes | xcomp |
| 66 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 65 eat | obj |
| 67 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 74 get | punct |
| 68 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 74 get | cc |
| 69 | in | in | ADP | _ | 71 meantime | case |
| 70 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 71 meantime | det |
| 71 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 74 get | obl |
| 72 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 74 get | nsubj |
| 73 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 74 get | aux |
| 74 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 continued | conj |
| 75 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 77 cattle | det:predet |
| 76 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 77 cattle | det |
| 77 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 74 get | obj |
| 78 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue in a quote | past | the Iron Wolf | return for that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present | thou | whenever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit down | infinitive | thou not said here | the bridal bench | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location | ||||
| 4 | come | future | 17 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | eat | infinitive | 17 not said here | thee | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other in a quote | past | the servant | servant | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot servant=Theme | ||||
| 7 | happen | may | a lot of things | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | sit down | present | I | the bridal bench | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location | ||||
| 9 | come | present | servant | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | eat | to-infinitive | servant not said here | me | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 11 | get | shall | I | all cattle | the meantime | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cattle=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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