Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 64
She is too young!" said they.--Then the youngest daughter said, "Ye fools, not to take me too!
Who acts: woman, damsels, youngest daughter, Ye · What happens: be, say, fool, not take · To what, where: me · 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 (woman, damsels, youngest daughter, Ye), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 young | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 young | advmod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 young | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 young | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | parataxis |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 11 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 said | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 daughter | det |
| 13 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 daughter | amod |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fools | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fools | punct |
| 18 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 fools | nsubj |
| 19 | fools | fool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 said | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 take | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 take | mark |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 take | advmod |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | woman | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | damsels = damsel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the youngest daughter | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | fool | Ye | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not take | to-infinitive | me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
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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