Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 67
Then St Peter drew forth a little fife from his bosom and gave it to him, and took away the incense, and who can say where he went with it?
Who acts: St Peter, PETER · What happens: draw, give, take away, say, go, bosom · To what, where: little fife, bosom, FIFE, PETER, incense · 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 (St Peter, PETER), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 drew | advmod |
| 2 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Peter | compound |
| 3 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 drew | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fife | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fife | amod |
| 8 | fife | fife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 bosom | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fife | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADP | _ | 19 took | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 incense | det |
| 22 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 say | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 say | cc |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 say | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 say | aux |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 took | parataxis |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 went | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 say | ccomp |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 went | obl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | St Peter | a little fife | PETER's bosom | then | forth property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fife=Theme from bosom=Initial_Location | |
| 2 | give | past | St Peter not said here | FIFE | PETER | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | take away | past | St Peter not said here | the incense | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incense=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | can | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | go | past | PETER | with incense | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | bosom | PETER | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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