Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 105
Well, old man," said he, "'tis no use for thee to go to school, that's plain.
Who acts: old man, thee, man · What happens: say, go, be · To what, where: school · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, thee, 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 man | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 plain | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 he | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 plain | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 tis | punct |
| 12 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 plain | nsubj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 use | det |
| 14 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tis | obj |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 go | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 use | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 school | case |
| 20 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 plain | punct |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 plain | nsubj |
| 23 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 plain | cop |
| 24 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | thee | school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | man | plain property | 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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