Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Origin of the Mole, sentence 9
"The rich man's, the rich man's," cried a voice from the midst of the field.
Who acts: rich man · What happens: cry · To what, where: voice, midst
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 (rich man), 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 | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 man | case |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 man | case |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 midst | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 midst | det |
| 18 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 field | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 field | det |
| 21 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 midst | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the rich man's rich man | a voice | the midst of the field | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=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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