Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 188
Thou dog!" roared they, "we've been looking out for thee for some time!"
Who acts: Thou, dog, we · What happens: dog, roar, look out · To what, where: rulers
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 (Thou, dog, we), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 dog | nsubj |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roared | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 dog | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 dog | punct |
| 5 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 roared | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 looking | nsubj |
| 10 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 looking | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 looking | aux |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 roared | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 looking | compound:prt |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 thee | case |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 looking | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looking | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dog | Thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | roar in a quote | past | dog | rulers = ruler | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look out | present · perfect · progressive | we | time | for thee | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for thou=Theme |
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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