Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 40
Only," said he, "take care that the Iron Wolf doesn't catch me!"--"Have no fear of that," said they. "
Who acts: dog, Iron Wolf, preparations · What happens: say, take, not catch, have, fear · To what, where: care, me, fear, that · 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 (dog, Iron Wolf, preparations), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Only | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 catch | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Wolf | det |
| 12 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Wolf | compound |
| 13 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 catch | nsubj |
| 14 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 catch | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 catch | advmod |
| 16 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | advcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 catch | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 Have | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Have | punct |
| 22 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 fear | det |
| 24 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Have | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 that | case |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 fear | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Have | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Have | punct |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | nsubj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not catch | present · do-support | the Iron Wolf | me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | no fear of that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | preparations = preparation | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | fear | that | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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