Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 49

Then he asked his younger son, "And what wouldst thou make out of these oaks, my son?"

Who acts: Prince, thou · What happens: ask, make out · To what, where: younger son, oaks · 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 asked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
5	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct
9	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 make	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 make	obj
11	wouldst	would	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 make	nsubj
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 oaks	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 oaks	case
16	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 oaks	det
17	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 son	punct
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 son	nmod:poss
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	vocative
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Prince		Prince's younger son		then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
2	make out in a quote	would	thou	this oaks				my son vocative	tree rules

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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