Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 48
"Then it was thou who didst slay him?" cried the father.
Who acts: corpse, thou, father · What happens: be, do, slay, cry · To what, where: thou, hog · 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 (corpse, thou, father), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 didst | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 thou | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thou | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thou | cop |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 didst | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 didst | nsubj |
| 7 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cried | parataxis |
| 8 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 didst | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 slay | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 didst | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 didst | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 father | det |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | corpse | thou | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | slay in a quote | infinitive | thou not said here | hog | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the father | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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