Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 120
I did not bother much about the money afterward, because I had such good children; but when you sent me to school I came to this self-same oak, and I said to myself, "I wonder if these few silver pieces have been waiting for their master all this time!
Who acts: I, you, few silver pieces · What happens: not bother, have, send, come, say, wonder · To what, where: such good children, me, school, self same oak, myself · 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, you, few silver pieces), 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 bother | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bother | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bother | advmod |
| 4 | bother | bother | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 bother | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 money | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 money | det |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bother | obl |
| 9 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 4 bother | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bother | parataxis |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 children | amod |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 children | amod |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 came | cc |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 sent | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 sent | nsubj |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 came | advcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 sent | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 school | case |
| 24 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obl |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bother | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 oak | case |
| 28 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 oak | nsubj |
| 29 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 oak | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 self | punct |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 oak | amod |
| 32 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 said | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 said | cc |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 said | nsubj |
| 36 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 came | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 myself | case |
| 38 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 said | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 wonder | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 wonder | punct |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 wonder | nsubj |
| 42 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 said | ccomp |
| 43 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 50 waiting | mark |
| 44 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 47 pieces | det |
| 45 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 pieces | amod |
| 46 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 pieces | compound |
| 47 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 waiting | nsubj |
| 48 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 waiting | aux |
| 49 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 50 waiting | aux |
| 50 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 wonder | ccomp |
| 51 | for | for | ADP | _ | 53 master | case |
| 52 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 master | nmod:poss |
| 53 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 waiting | obl |
| 54 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 56 time | det:predet |
| 55 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 56 time | det |
| 56 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 waiting | obl:unmarked |
| 57 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 bother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bother | past · do-support | I | about the money; afterward property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | have | past | I | such good children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 3 | send | past | you | me | school | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to school=Destination | |||
| 4 | come | past | I | self same oak | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to oak=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: express | past | I | myself | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to myself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | wait a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | this few silver pieces | time | for children's master | vn exist-47.1 «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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