Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 105
At last the parson got home, all rags and tatters, so that when his wife saw him she did not know him, but called to the labourers, "Help, help! here's a robber, turn him out!"
Who acts: last parson, wife · What happens: get, see, not know, call, help, be · To what, where: rags, parson, labourers, robber · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last parson, wife), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 parson | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 parson | det |
| 4 | parson | parson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rags | punct |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 rags | det |
| 9 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tatters | cc |
| 11 | tatters | tatter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rags | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 saw | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 saw | advmod |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | obj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 saw | ccomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 know | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 called | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 called | cc |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 got | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 labourers | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 labourers | det |
| 30 | labourers | labourer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 called | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Help | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Help | punct |
| 33 | Help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 called | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 help | punct |
| 35 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 Help | xcomp |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 help | punct |
| 37 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 robber | advmod |
| 38 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 robber | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 robber | det |
| 40 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Help | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 turn | punct |
| 42 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 33 Help | conj |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 turn | obj |
| 44 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 turn | compound:prt |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 Help | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the last parson | all rags and tatters | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | see | past | parson's wife | parson | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | wife | parson | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | call speech: express | participle | the labourers | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to labourer=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | help in a quote | infinitive | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | help in a quote | infinitive | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | a robber | here | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | turn out in a quote | infinitive | parson | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=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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