Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 117
The deuce is in thee!" cried he.
Who acts: deuce, parson · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: thee · 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 (deuce, parson), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 deuce | det |
| 2 | deuce | deuce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thee | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thee | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 thee | case |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 thee | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thee | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the deuce | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | parson | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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