Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 136

So he went home and greeted them all, and as he did so he thought to himself, "Why should I not greet my uncle's daughter like the rest of them?

Who acts: damsel · What happens: go, greet, do, think, not greet · To what, where: fish, damsel, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damsel), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 greeted	cc
6	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 greeted	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 them	nmod:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 thought	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 did	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thought	advcl
14	so	so	ADV	_	13 did	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 thought	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 greet	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 greet	punct
21	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	25 greet	advmod
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 greet	aux
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 greet	nsubj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 greet	advmod
25	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 thought	ccomp
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 uncle	nmod:poss
27	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 daughter	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 uncle	case
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 greet	obj
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 rest	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rest	det
32	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 greet	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 rest	nmod
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	damsel		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	greet speech: greet	past	damsel not said here	fish		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	do	past	damsel			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	past	damsel	damsel		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not greet speech: greet in a quote	should	damsel	my uncle's daughter	like the rest of fish	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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