Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 22
And he told the General all that had happened.--"Oh, nonsense!" said the General, "don't be afraid.
Who acts: man, that, General · What happens: tell, happen, say, not be · 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 (man, that, General), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 General | det |
| 5 | General | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 told | xcomp |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 happened | det:predet |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happened | aux |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | ccomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 nonsense | punct |
| 13 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 15 nonsense | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Oh | punct |
| 15 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 nonsense | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 nonsense | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 General | det |
| 20 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 afraid | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 afraid | punct |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 afraid | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 afraid | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 afraid | cop |
| 26 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | man | general property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the General | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the General not said here | afraid property | tree rules |
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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