Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 15
His father and mother fretted sorely because of him, and said, "What are we to do with thee, O son? for thou art good for nothing.
Who acts: father, we · What happens: fret, say, be · To what, where: mother · 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 (father, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mother | cc |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 father | conj |
| 5 | fretted | fret | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 mother | acl |
| 6 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 5 fretted | advmod |
| 7 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 9 him | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 because | fixed |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fretted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 15 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 do | obj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | cop |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 thee | case |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 do | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 son | punct |
| 23 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 son | compound |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | vocative |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 art | mark |
| 27 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 art | nsubj |
| 28 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | advcl |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 art | xcomp |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 nothing | case |
| 31 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 29 good | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fret | participle | mother not said here | because Heaven; sorely property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Heaven's father and mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | we | with thee; O son vocative; do 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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