Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 137
Why, they'll think me a mere pagan if I don't!"
Who acts: fish, I · What happens: think, not do · To what, where: me
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 (fish, I), 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 | 5 think | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pagan | det |
| 8 | mere | mere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pagan | compound |
| 9 | pagan | pagan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | obj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | advcl |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 do | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | future | fish | me | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme pagan=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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