Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 16
Other people's children are a stay and a support to their parents, but thou art but a fool and dost consume our bread for naught."
Who acts: children, fool · What happens: be, do, consume · To what, where: stay, bread
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 (children, fool), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 children | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 people | case |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stay | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stay | det |
| 7 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 support | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 support | det |
| 10 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 parents | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 parents | nmod:poss |
| 13 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 support | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 art | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 art | cc |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 art | nsubj |
| 17 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | parataxis |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 consume | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fool | det |
| 20 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 consume | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dost | cc |
| 22 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fool | conj |
| 23 | consume | consume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 art | conj |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 bread | nmod:poss |
| 25 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 consume | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 naught | case |
| 27 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 23 consume | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stay | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Other people's children | a stay and a support to children's parents | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present | a fool not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | consume | present | a fool | our bread | for naught | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Asset |
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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