Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 117

"How shall we manage to live with so little?" said the father.--"Wait a while, dad, and we shall have still more," said the son. "

Who acts: we, father, son · What happens: manage, live, say, wait, have · To what, where: more · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (we, father, son), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 manage	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 manage	advmod
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 manage	aux
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 manage	nsubj
5	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 live	mark
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 manage	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 little	case
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 little	advmod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 live	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 manage	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 manage	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 father	det
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 Wait	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Wait	punct
19	Wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 while	det
21	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Wait	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dad	punct
23	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 while	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 said	ccomp
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 more	advmod
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 have	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 more	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Wait	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 son	det
35	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 said	nsubj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 Wait	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	manage in a quote	shall	we				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	live in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here			with little	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with little=Location
3	say speech: ask	past	the father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wait in a quote	infinitive			while		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have in a quote	shall	we	more			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
6	say speech: assert	past	the son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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