Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 76
At last the wife was ashamed, and said to her husband one day, "Dear heart! let me go to thy father!
Who acts: last wife · What happens: be, say, let, go · To what, where: husband, last wife · 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 (last wife), 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 | 4 wife | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wife | det |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ashamed | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ashamed | cop |
| 6 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ashamed | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 husband | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 day | nummod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heart | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 heart | punct |
| 17 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 heart | amod |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 ashamed | punct |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ashamed | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 father | case |
| 24 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 ashamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the last wife | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the last wife not said here | Tsar's husband | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient | |||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | the last wife not said here | the last wife = wife | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | the last wife = wife not said here | to thy father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location |
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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