Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 111

I smell an evil smell of Cossack bones!"--But his mother answered, "A young woman came hither who begged for a night's lodging."

Who acts: I, mother, young woman, Cossack bones · What happens: smell, answer, come, beg · To what, where: evil smell · 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	_	15 answered	punct
12	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 answered	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answered	nsubj
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 smell	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
18	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 answered	parataxis
22	hither	hither	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 begged	nsubj
24	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	29 lodging	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 night	det
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lodging	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 night	case
29	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 begged	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 smell	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 smell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smell	present	I	a evil smell of Cossack bones		tree rules
2	answer speech: assert in a quote	past	husband's mother			tree rules
3	come	past	a young woman		hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	beg speech: request	past			for a night's lodging	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for lodging=Topic
5	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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