Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 110
But the serpent said to the prince, "Well, which of my daughters dost thou think the loveliest?"
Who acts: serpent, daughters · What happens: say, do, think · To what, where: prince, thou · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent, daughters), 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 serpent | det |
| 3 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 prince | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dost | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 dost | punct |
| 10 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 16 dost | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dost | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 dost | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 daughters | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dost | nsubj |
| 16 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 dost | obj |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dost | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 loveliest | det |
| 20 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 think | ccomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the serpent | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | my daughters | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | infinitive | my daughters not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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