Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 4
But the lark said, "No, let me have it!"--"What's to be done?" thought they.
Who acts: lark · What happens: say, let, have, do, think · To what, where: lark, birds · 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 (lark), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lark | det |
| 3 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 7 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 let | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 No | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 have | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 done | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 done | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 done | obj |
| 18 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 done | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 done | aux:pass |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 let | parataxis |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 done | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thought | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the lark | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | the lark = lark | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | infinitive | the lark = lark not said here | lark | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | the lark not said here | birds = bird | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=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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