Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 43
Take it and play upon it!" roared his father at him.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, play, roar · To what, where: hand, father · 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 (you), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 play | cc |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 play | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 roared | punct |
| 9 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roared | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 roared | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | hand | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | play | infinitive | you not said here | upon hand | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | roar in a quote | past | father's father | at father | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent father=Theme at he=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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