Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 99

What is this, little mother?" cried he. "

Who acts: husband · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: little mother · 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 mother	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mother	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 mother	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	parataxis
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		little mother					tree rules
2	cry speech: express in a quote	past	husband						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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