Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 137
Then he bethought him, and said, "Was ever the like of this known?
Who acts: husband · What happens: bethink, say, know · To what, where: cock · 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 (husband), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bethought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bethought | nsubj |
| 3 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bethought | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bethought | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 the | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 the | punct |
| 10 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 the | cop |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 the | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 known | det |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 this | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 like | fixed |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 the | nmod |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 bethought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bethink | past | husband | cock | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | husband not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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