Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 49
Oh again bade him chop wood, but again he went to sleep.
Who acts: labourer · What happens: chop, go · To what, where: bade, sleep
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 (labourer), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 bade | discourse |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Oh | advmod |
| 3 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chop | obl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | obj |
| 5 | chop | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chop | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chop | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 sleep | case |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop | present | bade | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient | |||||
| 2 | go | past | labourer | sleep | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location |
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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