Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 45

"What would I make of them, dear father?

Who acts: prince · What happens: make

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), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 make	obj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 father	punct
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 father	amod
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	would	the prince = prince					of sons = son	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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