Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 49
What could the elder brother do but confess it!
Who acts: elder brother · What happens: do, confess · To what, where: corpse
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 (elder brother), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brother | det |
| 4 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 confess | cc |
| 8 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 confess | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | the elder brother | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | confess | infinitive | the elder brother not said here | corpse | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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