Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 77
This one had a lot of little children, and that one had a scold for a wife, and this house was too small, and that house was too poor. "
Who acts: one, house · What happens: have, be · To what, where: lot, scold
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 (one, house), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lot | det |
| 5 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 children | amod |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lot | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 scold | det |
| 15 | scold | scold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 wife | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 wife | det |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scold | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 small | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 small | cc |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 small | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 small | cop |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 25 small | advmod |
| 25 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 poor | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 poor | cc |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 house | det |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 poor | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 poor | cop |
| 31 | too | too | ADV | _ | 32 poor | advmod |
| 32 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 small | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this one | a lot of little children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | that one | a scold | for a wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scold=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | this house | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | that house | poor property | tree rules |
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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