Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 127
O man! what dost thou want for that horse?" said he.--"A thousand roubles without the halter."--"Nay! but that is dear, little father!
Who acts: thou, gipsy, that · What happens: do, want, say, be · 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 (thou, gipsy, that), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 2 man | discourse |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 man | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 horse | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 horse | det |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 roubles | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 roubles | punct |
| 18 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thousand | det |
| 19 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 roubles | nummod |
| 20 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 what | appos |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 halter | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 halter | det |
| 23 | halter | halter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 roubles | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 roubles | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 Nay | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Nay | punct |
| 28 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 4 what | discourse |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 Nay | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 dear | discourse |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 dear | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 dear | cop |
| 33 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 what | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 father | amod |
| 36 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | advcl |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | want | present | thou | for that horse | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | gipsy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | that | dear property | tree rules |
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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