Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 11
But the father said, "Oh, fool, fool, wherefore shouldst thou go?
Who acts: father, thou · What happens: say, go · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, thou), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fool | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fool | punct |
| 7 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 fool | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Oh | punct |
| 9 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fool | punct |
| 11 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fool | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 13 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 go | advmod |
| 14 | shouldst | should | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 go | nsubj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fool | parataxis |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | should | thou | wherefore property | 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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