Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 4
Things don't seem to get on at all without thee, dad!" cried she, "and the house is quite dreary.
Who acts: Things, house · What happens: not seem, get on, cry, be · To what, where: all, daughter · 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 (Things, 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seem | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seem | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 seem | advmod |
| 4 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seem | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 get | compound:prt |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 get | obl |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 thee | case |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 get | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dad | punct |
| 13 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | vocative |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 seem | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seem | parataxis |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cried | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dreary | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dreary | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 dreary | cop |
| 24 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 dreary | advmod |
| 25 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cried | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seem | present · do-support | Things | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | get on | to-infinitive | Things not said here | all | without thee; dad vocative | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | daughter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the house | dreary 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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