Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 100

I smell an evil smell of Cossack bones!"--But she said to him, "Nay, my dear little son, but a young woman has come hither who is obliged to search for her husband because she told his father and mother the truth."

Who acts: I, mother, young woman, Cossack bones · What happens: smell, say, come, oblige, search, tell · To what, where: evil smell, husband, truth, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mother, young woman, Cossack bones), 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	2 smell	nsubj
2	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 smell	det
4	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 smell	amod
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smell	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bones	case
7	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bones	compound
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smell	nmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 smell	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 smell	punct
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	But	but	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 smell	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 son	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 son	punct
19	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	24 son	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 son	punct
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 son	nmod:poss
22	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 son	amod
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 son	amod
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 come	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 come	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 woman	det
28	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woman	amod
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	nsubj
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	parataxis
32	hither	hither	ADV	_	31 come	advmod
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 obliged	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 obliged	aux:pass
35	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 come	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 search	mark
37	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 obliged	xcomp
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 husband	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 husband	nmod:poss
40	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 search	obl
41	because	because	SCONJ	_	43 told	mark
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 told	nsubj
43	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 search	advcl
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 father	nmod:poss
45	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 told	iobj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 mother	cc
47	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 father	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 truth	det
49	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 told	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 smell	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 smell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	smell	present	I	a evil smell of Cossack bones			vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	mother		husband		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come	present · perfect	a young woman			hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	oblige	present · passive					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	search	to-infinitive				for mother's husband	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for husband=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past	mother	the truth	husband's father and mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent father=Recipient truth=Topic
7	smell		Cossack bones				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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