Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 118
I won't spend it," I said to myself, "for one never knows what may happen."
Who acts: I, four sons · What happens: not spend, say, not know, happen · To what, where: money, four sons · 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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 spend | nsubj |
| 2 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 spend | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 spend | advmod |
| 4 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spend | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spend | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 myself | case |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 knows | obl |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 knows | advmod |
| 17 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 happen | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 happen | aux |
| 20 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 knows | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spend | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 spend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spend | future | I | money | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Asset clause=Goal | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | thy four sons = son | thy four sons = son | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to myself=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not know | present | for one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | happen | may | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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