Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 93
There is an evil smell of Cossack bones about the house!"--"No, it is not that," said his mother, "but a young woman has taken shelter here, who says that she is going in search of her husband."--"Then, mother, give her the little silver apple, and let her go, for her husband is in another kingdom."
Who acts: evil smell, smell, young woman, woman, mother, husband · What happens: be, not be, say, take, go, give · To what, where: mother, shelter, search, little silver apple, woman, husband · 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 (evil smell, smell, young woman, woman), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 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 is | nsubj |
| 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 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bones | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 smell | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 smell | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 16 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 that | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 No | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 that | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 that | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 that | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | ADV | _ | 24 said | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 that | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 that | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 taken | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 woman | det |
| 31 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 woman | amod |
| 32 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 taken | nsubj |
| 33 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 taken | aux |
| 34 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 said | conj |
| 35 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 taken | obj |
| 36 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 taken | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 says | punct |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 says | nsubj |
| 39 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 taken | conj |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 going | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 going | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 going | aux |
| 43 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 says | ccomp |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 search | case |
| 45 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 going | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 husband | case |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 husband | nmod:poss |
| 48 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 search | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 going | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 going | punct |
| 51 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 57 give | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 53 Then | punct |
| 53 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 57 give | advmod |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 mother | punct |
| 55 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 give | nsubj |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 mother | punct |
| 57 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 says | ccomp |
| 58 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 give | iobj |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 apple | det |
| 60 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 apple | amod |
| 61 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 apple | compound |
| 62 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 give | obj |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 let | punct |
| 64 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 65 let | cc |
| 65 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 57 give | conj |
| 66 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 65 let | obj |
| 67 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 65 let | xcomp |
| 68 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 75 kingdom | punct |
| 69 | for | for | ADP | _ | 75 kingdom | case |
| 70 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 71 husband | nmod:poss |
| 71 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 75 kingdom | nsubj |
| 72 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 75 kingdom | cop |
| 73 | in | in | ADP | _ | 75 kingdom | case |
| 74 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 75 kingdom | det |
| 75 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 go | obl |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 77 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a evil smell of Cossack bones about the house | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | smell | that property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | God's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take | present · perfect | a young woman | shelter | here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | go | present · progressive | woman | search of woman's husband | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | ||||
| 7 | give | infinitive | mother | the little silver apple | woman | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient apple=Theme | ||
| 8 | let | infinitive | mother not said here | woman | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | go | infinitive | woman not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | is | present | mother's husband | for another kingdom | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | smell | Cossack bones about the house | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 12 | search | woman's husband | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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