Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 34
I am taking this sorry blockhead of mine to hire him out to somebody or other.
Who acts: I · What happens: take, hire out · To what, where: sorry blockhead, last
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 taking | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 taking | aux |
| 3 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 blockhead | det |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blockhead | amod |
| 6 | blockhead | blockhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taking | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mine | case |
| 8 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 blockhead | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hire | mark |
| 10 | hire | hire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 taking | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hire | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 hire | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 somebody | case |
| 14 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 hire | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 other | cc |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 somebody | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · progressive | I | this sorry blockhead of mine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blockhead=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hire out | to-infinitive | I not said here | last | to somebody | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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