Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 72
And he asked them, "Do ye know by which way I can get to the capital?"
Who acts: man, ye · What happens: ask, know, get · To what, where: feet, way · 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 (man, ye), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 asked | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 7 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 11 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 way | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 capital | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 capital | det |
| 18 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | man | feet = foot | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | infinitive · do-support | ye | by which way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | can | man | which way not said here | to the capital | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
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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