Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 153
I will go and ask those people who are ploughing yonder."
Who acts: I, people · What happens: go, ask, plough · To what, where: people
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 (I, people), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ask | cc |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ask | obj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 ploughing | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ploughing | aux |
| 10 | ploughing | plough | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 people | acl:relcl |
| 11 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 10 ploughing | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | I not said here | that people | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | plough | present · progressive | that people | yonder property | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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