Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 113
Is that thy falcon?"--"'Tis mine."--"Sell it to us, then!"--"Bid for it!"--"What dost thou want for it?"--"If ye give three hundred roubles, ye may take it, but it must be without the hood."--"As if we want _thy_ hood!
Who acts: thou, ye, mine, we · What happens: be, sell, bid, want, give, take · To what, where: falcon, mine, us, hundred roubles
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, ye, mine, 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 falcon | cop |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 falcon | det |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 falcon | nmod:poss |
| 4 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mine | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 falcon | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 falcon | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 mine | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 mine | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 mine | punct |
| 10 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mine | compound |
| 11 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 mine | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 mine | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sell | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sell | punct |
| 16 | Sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 mine | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 Sell | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 Sell | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 then | punct |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 73 hood | advmod |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 then | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 then | punct |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 Bid | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Bid | punct |
| 26 | Bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 73 hood | csubj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 Bid | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 Bid | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Bid | punct |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 want | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 want | punct |
| 33 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 36 want | obj |
| 34 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 want | aux |
| 35 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 want | nsubj |
| 36 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 Bid | parataxis |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 want | obl |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 36 want | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 want | punct |
| 41 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 52 take | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 take | punct |
| 43 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 45 give | mark |
| 44 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 45 give | nsubj |
| 45 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 take | advcl |
| 46 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 hundred | compound |
| 47 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 roubles | nummod |
| 48 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 give | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 give | punct |
| 50 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 52 take | nsubj |
| 51 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 take | aux |
| 52 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 Bid | parataxis |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 take | obj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 hood | punct |
| 55 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 61 hood | cc |
| 56 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 hood | nsubj |
| 57 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 61 hood | aux |
| 58 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 61 hood | cop |
| 59 | without | without | ADP | _ | 61 hood | case |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 hood | det |
| 61 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 take | obl |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 Bid | punct |
| 63 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Bid | punct |
| 64 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 73 hood | punct |
| 65 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 73 hood | punct |
| 66 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 69 want | mark |
| 67 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 69 want | mark |
| 68 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 69 want | nsubj |
| 69 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 73 hood | advcl |
| 70 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 69 want | punct |
| 71 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 73 hood | nmod:poss |
| 72 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 73 hood | amod |
| 73 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Sell | obl |
| 74 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 mine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | thy falcon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sell | infinitive | mine | us | thy _ hood obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to we=Recipient | |||
| 3 | bid | infinitive | for mine | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | want | present · do-support | thou | for mine | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give a condition, not said to happen | present | ye | hundred roubles | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rouble=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take | may | ye | mine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | must | mine | without the hood | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | want | present | we | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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