Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 11

Dear little cock!" said she, "pray open the door!"--"Nay, little fox!

Who acts: Dear little cock, fox · What happens: say, pray, open · To what, where: door · 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 (Dear little cock, fox), 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	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cock	amod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cock	amod
3	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 cock	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 cock	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 open	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 she	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 pray	punct
10	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 she	conj
11	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 open	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 open	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 open	punct
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 Nay	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Nay	punct
18	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	6 said	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fox	punct
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fox	amod
21	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Nay	conj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Dear little cock		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pray	infinitive	fox not said here		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	open	infinitive	fox	the door	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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