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Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 45

What manner of beast was it?"--Then they took him and showed him the heads of the Dragon, and he cried, "Good Lord! every other beast hath a tongue, but this Dragon hath none!"

Who acts: beast, manner, brother, other beast, Dragon · What happens: be, take, show, cry, have · To what, where: brother, heads, Good Lord, tongue, none · 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 (beast, manner, brother, other beast), 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

detnsubjcasensubjcopnmodpunctpunctpunctadvmodnsubjobjccconjiobjdetobjcasedetnmodpunctccnsubjconjpunctpunctamodoblpunctdetamodnsubjconjdetobjpunctccdetnsubjparataxisobjpunctpunctrootWhatDETmannerNOUNofADPbeastNOUNwasAUXitPRON?PUNCT"PUNCT--PUNCTThenADVtheyPRONtookVERBhimPRONandCCONJshowedVERBhimPRONtheDETheadsNOUNofADPtheDETDragonPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONcriedVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTGoodADJLordPROPN!PUNCTeveryDETotherADJbeastNOUNhathVERBaDETtongueNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJthisDETDragonPROPNhathVERBnonePRON!PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatDETPronType=Int2 mannerdet
2mannermannerNOUNNumber=Sing12 tooknsubj
3ofofADP_6 itcase
4beastbeastNOUNNumber=Sing6 itnsubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 itcop
6ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 mannernmod
7??PUNCT_2 mannerpunct
8""PUNCT_2 mannerpunct
9----PUNCT_12 tookpunct
10ThenthenADVPronType=Dem12 tookadvmod
11theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs12 tooknsubj
12tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
13himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 tookobj
14andandCCONJ_15 showedcc
15showedshowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 tookconj
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 showediobj
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 headsdet
18headsheadNOUNNumber=Plur15 showedobj
19ofofADP_21 Dragoncase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 Dragondet
21DragonDragonPROPNNumber=Sing18 headsnmod
22,,PUNCT_25 criedpunct
23andandCCONJ_25 criedcc
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 criednsubj
25criedcryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 tookconj
26,,PUNCT_29 Lordpunct
27""PUNCT_29 Lordpunct
28GoodgoodADJDegree=Pos29 Lordamod
29LordLordPROPNNumber=Sing25 criedobl
30!!PUNCT_29 Lordpunct
31everyeveryDETPronType=Tot33 beastdet
32otherotherADJDegree=Pos33 beastamod
33beastbeastNOUNNumber=Sing34 hathnsubj
34hathhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 criedconj
35aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art36 tonguedet
36tonguetongueNOUNNumber=Sing34 hathobj
37,,PUNCT_41 hathpunct
38butbutCCONJ_41 hathcc
39thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem40 Dragondet
40DragonDragonPROPNNumber=Sing41 hathnsubj
41hathhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 tookparataxis
42nonenonePRONPronType=Neg41 hathobj
43!!PUNCT_41 hathpunct
44""PUNCT_41 hathpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastbeastof beasttree rules
2take in a quotepastwhat mannerbrotherthenvn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme clause=Attribute
3show in a quotepastwhat manner not said herethe heads of the Dragonbrothervn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient head=Topic
4cry speech: express in a quotepastbrotherGood Lordvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5havepresentevery other beasta tonguevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient
6havepresentthis Dragonnonevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient

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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