Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 47

I would cut them down and plane the timber well, and goodly should be the planks I should make of them."

Who acts: I, planks · What happens: cut down, be, make · To what, where: sons, planks

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 (I, planks), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	aux
3	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 cut	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 plane	cc
7	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 timber	det
9	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obj
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 cut	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 make	cc
13	goodly	goodly	ADV	_	17 planks	advmod
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 planks	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 planks	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 planks	det
17	planks	plank	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 make	nsubj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 make	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 make	aux
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cut	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 make	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut down	would	I	sons = son	well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary timber=Product
2	is a	should		the planks	goodly property	tree rules
3	make	should	the planks		of sons = son	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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