Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 117
Take this and go home to thy children," said he, "and when thou hast got home, call together all thy four sons and say to them, 'My dear children, long long ago, when I was younger than I am now, and knocked about in the world a bit, I made a little money. "
Who acts: you, man, thou, four sons, I · What happens: take, go, say, get, call together, be · To what, where: this, dear children, sons, bit, world, little money · 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 (you, man, thou, four sons), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 go | cc |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 children | nmod:poss |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 got | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 got | advmod |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 got | nsubj |
| 18 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | aux |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | conj |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 got | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 call | punct |
| 22 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 call | advmod |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 sons | det |
| 25 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 sons | nmod:poss |
| 26 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 sons | nummod |
| 27 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 call | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 say | cc |
| 29 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 call | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 say | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 children | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 children | punct |
| 34 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 children | nmod:poss |
| 35 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 children | amod |
| 36 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 say | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 ago | punct |
| 38 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 ago | advmod |
| 39 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 ago | advmod |
| 40 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 36 children | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 younger | punct |
| 42 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 younger | advmod |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 younger | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 younger | cop |
| 45 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 children | parataxis |
| 46 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 49 now | mark |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 now | nsubj |
| 48 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 now | cop |
| 49 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 younger | advcl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 knocked | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 knocked | cc |
| 52 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 53 | about | about | ADV | _ | 52 knocked | advmod |
| 54 | in | in | ADP | _ | 56 world | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 world | det |
| 56 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 knocked | obl |
| 57 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 58 bit | det |
| 58 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 knocked | obl:unmarked |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 made | punct |
| 60 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 61 made | nsubj |
| 61 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 62 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 64 money | det |
| 63 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 64 money | amod |
| 64 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 made | obj |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 66 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | to thy children; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to child=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get | present · perfect | thou | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | call together speech: assert | infinitive | thy four sons | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | infinitive | thy four sons not said here | My dear children | sons = son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | |||
| 7 | is | past | I | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | present | I | now property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | knock about | past | man not said here | a bit | the world | about property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | ||
| 10 | make | past | I | a little money | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Product |
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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