Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 14
Beat her till she has brought them all to life again," said they.
Who acts: you, woman, Tsar · What happens: beat, bring, say · To what, where: woman, Tsar, life · 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, woman, Tsar), 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 | Beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Beat | obj |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 brought | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | aux |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 brought | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Beat | parataxis |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | imperative | you not said here | woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect | woman | Tsar | life | again | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to life=Destination | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Tsar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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