Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 14
Strike me out those words instantly, I say, and never dare read them in church again.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: strike out, say, not dare, not read · To what, where: me, words, church · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Strike | obj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Strike | compound:prt |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Strike | obj |
| 6 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 1 Strike | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Strike | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dare | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dare | cc |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 dare | advmod |
| 13 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 say | ccomp |
| 14 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dare | xcomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 read | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 church | case |
| 17 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 read | obl |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 read | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Strike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike out | imperative | you not said here | me | instantly property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent i=Patient word=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not dare | infinitive | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | not read | infinitive | words = word | church | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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