Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 44
The prince looked at the trees, and said to his eldest son, "My dear son, what wouldst thou make of those trees?"
Who acts: prince, thou · What happens: look, say, make · To what, where: eldest son, dear son · 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 (prince, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 trees | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trees | det |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 son | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 son | amod |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 son | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 son | punct |
| 16 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 son | amod |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 make | obj |
| 21 | wouldst | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 23 make | aux |
| 22 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 make | nsubj |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 son | acl:relcl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 trees | case |
| 25 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 trees | det |
| 26 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 make | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the prince | at the trees | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the prince not said here | Prince's eldest son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | would | thou | My dear son | of that trees | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product |
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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