Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 120

Then the mice assembled round them in their hosts: "Why dost thou whistle, and what dost thou want of us, O Ivan Golik?" said they.

Who acts: mice, thou · What happens: assemble, do, want, say · To what, where: hosts, 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 (mice, thou), 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 assembled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mice	det
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 assembled	nsubj
4	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 said	ccomp
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 assembled	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hosts	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hosts	nmod:poss
9	hosts	host	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 assembled	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 dost	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 dost	punct
12	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 dost	advmod
13	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 assembled	parataxis
14	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 dost	obj
15	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dost	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 want	cc
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 want	obj
19	dost	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 want	aux
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 want	nsubj
21	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 dost	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 us	case
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 want	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Golik	punct
25	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	27 Golik	case
26	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Golik	compound
27	Golik	Golik	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 said	nsubj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 Golik	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Golik	punct
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assemble	participle	the mice		IVAN's hosts	then	round IVAN	tree rules
2	do in a quote	present		thou				tree rules
3	want in a quote	present · do-support	thou				of us	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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