Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 118
When we pass through the fair I'll change myself into a horse, and thou must sell me.
Who acts: we, I, thou · What happens: pass, change, sell · To what, where: fair, myself, me
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, I, thou), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 pass | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pass | nsubj |
| 3 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 change | advcl |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 fair | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fair | det |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pass | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 change | nsubj |
| 8 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 change | aux |
| 9 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 change | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 horse | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 horse | det |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 change | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sell | cc |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 sell | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 sell | aux |
| 18 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 change | advcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 sell | iobj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | we | the fair | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through fair=Location | ||||
| 2 | change | future | I | myself | into a horse result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent myself=Patient into horse=Result | |||
| 3 | sell | must | thou | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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