Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 38
Why!" cried the brothers, "our father has left us nothing but glass!"
Who acts: father · What happens: cry, leave · To what, where: brothers, us
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 (father), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 cried | advmod |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brothers | det |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cried | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 nothing | amod |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 left | iobj |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 cried | obl |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 glass | cc |
| 16 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nothing | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 nothing | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the brothers | nothing obl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave | present · perfect | our father | us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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