Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 131
How then can one lead him off?"--"Nevertheless, the halter must remain mine."--"Look now, my father, I'll give thee five roubles extra, only I must have the halter."--The old man fell a-thinking. "
Who acts: one, halter, I, old man · What happens: lead off, remain, look, give, have, fall · To what, where: gipsy, mine, five roubles, thee, halter, thinking
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 (one, halter, I, old man), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 then | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lead | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lead | aux |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 lead | nsubj |
| 5 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lead | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 lead | compound:prt |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 lead | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lead | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 remain | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 remain | punct |
| 12 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 17 remain | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nevertheless | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 halter | det |
| 15 | halter | halter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 remain | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 remain | aux |
| 17 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lead | parataxis |
| 18 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 remain | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lead | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lead | punct |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 Look | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Look | punct |
| 23 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 lead | parataxis |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 Look | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 father | punct |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 father | nmod:poss |
| 27 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Look | vocative |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 give | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 give | nsubj |
| 30 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 give | aux |
| 31 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lead | parataxis |
| 32 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 give | iobj |
| 33 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 roubles | nummod |
| 34 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 give | obj |
| 35 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 give | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 have | punct |
| 37 | only | only | ADV | _ | 40 have | advmod |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 have | nsubj |
| 39 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 have | aux |
| 40 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 give | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 halter | det |
| 42 | halter | halter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 have | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lead | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lead | punct |
| 45 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 49 fell | punct |
| 46 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 man | det |
| 47 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 man | amod |
| 48 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 fell | nsubj |
| 49 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lead | advcl |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 thinking | det |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 a | punct |
| 52 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 fell | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lead | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead off | can | one | gipsy | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | remain | must | the halter | mine | nevertheless property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme my=Attribute | |||
| 3 | look | infinitive | now | my father vocative | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | give | future | I | five roubles | thee | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | must | I | the halter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halter=Patient | ||||
| 6 | fall in a quote | past | the old man | a thinking | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient thinking=Result |
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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