Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Origin of the Mole, sentence 12
"Stay where thou art, and sit beneath the earth all thy days, so long as the sun is in the sky."
Who acts: you, sun · What happens: stay, sit, be · To what, where: earth
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Origin of the Mole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sun), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 2 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 art | advmod |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 art | nsubj |
| 5 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stay | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sit | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sit | cc |
| 8 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stay | conj |
| 9 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sit | obl |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 days | advmod |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 days | nmod:poss |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sit | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 long | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Stay | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 sky | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sun | det |
| 20 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sky | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sky | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sky | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sky | det |
| 24 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 long | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | imperative | you not said here | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the earth | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath earth=Location | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the sun | as the sky | tree rules |
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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