Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 107
My son is flying about the world, but he will fly hither presently, and if he find thee here he will slay thee!"--Then the bride said, "Nay, but, granny dear, I have already lodged with the like of thee.
Who acts: son, husband, bride, I · What happens: fly, find, slay, say, lodge · To what, where: thee, granny · 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 (son, husband, bride, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flying | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 flying | aux |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 said | ccomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flying | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fly | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 fly | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fly | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fly | aux |
| 12 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 flying | advcl |
| 13 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 14 presently | advmod |
| 14 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 12 fly | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 slay | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 slay | cc |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 slay | advcl |
| 20 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 find | obj |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 find | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 slay | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 slay | aux |
| 24 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 flying | parataxis |
| 25 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 slay | obj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 slay | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 slay | punct |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
| 29 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 said | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bride | det |
| 31 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 said | nsubj |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Nay | punct |
| 35 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 32 said | discourse |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 lodged | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 lodged | cc |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 granny | punct |
| 39 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 lodged | obl |
| 40 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 granny | amod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 granny | punct |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 lodged | nsubj |
| 43 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 lodged | aux |
| 44 | already | already | ADV | _ | 45 lodged | advmod |
| 45 | lodged | lodge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 said | conj |
| 46 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 50 thee | mark |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 thee | det |
| 48 | like | like | ADP | _ | 50 thee | case |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 thee | case |
| 50 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 45 lodged | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present · progressive | My son | about the world | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent about world=Location | ||||
| 2 | fly | future | husband | presently property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find a condition, not said to happen | present | husband | thee | here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Topic | |||
| 4 | slay | future | husband | thee | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the bride | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | lodge | present · perfect | I | granny | like thee | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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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