Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 46
At last she said to herself, "I'll go out and call them home, for the cock is roasting, and the milk pottage is simmering, and 'tis high time we had something to eat."
Who acts: fox, cock, milk pottage, we · What happens: say, go out, call, roast, simmer, have · To what, where: fox, daughters, something · 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 (fox, cock, milk pottage, we), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 last | acl:relcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 herself | case |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 call | cc |
| 14 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 call | obj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 call | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 roasting | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 roasting | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cock | det |
| 20 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 roasting | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 roasting | aux |
| 22 | roasting | roast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 call | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 simmering | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 simmering | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pottage | det |
| 26 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pottage | compound |
| 27 | pottage | pottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 simmering | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 simmering | aux |
| 29 | simmering | simmer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 go | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 tis | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 tis | cc |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 tis | punct |
| 33 | tis | ti | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 last | parataxis |
| 34 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 time | amod |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tis | conj |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 had | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 time | acl:relcl |
| 38 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 37 had | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 eat | mark |
| 40 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 something | acl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 tis | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | fox | fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go out in a quote | future | fox | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call in a quote | infinitive | fox not said here | daughters = daughter | home property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 4 | roast in a quote | present · progressive | the cock | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | simmer in a quote | present · progressive | the milk pottage | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | past | we | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 7 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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