Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 26
Such a funny thing has happened to me," said the nobleman. "
Who acts: funny thing · What happens: happen, say · To what, where: me, nobleman · 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 (funny thing), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 thing | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 happened | aux |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 happened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happened | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nobleman | det |
| 13 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happened | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present · perfect | such funny thing | me | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | such funny thing not said here | the nobleman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nobleman=Topic |
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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