Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 6
The crows all flew away when they saw him, but among them was a raven that flew back again and said to him, "O man! in this village thou wilt never be able to live, for here there is neither luck nor happiness for thee, but go into another village and thou shalt do well!"
Who acts: crows, raven, thou · What happens: fly away, see, be, fly back, say, not be · To what, where: him, village · 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 (crows, raven, 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 crows | det |
| 2 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 raven | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 raven | cc |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 raven | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 raven | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 raven | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 raven | det |
| 16 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 flew | nsubj |
| 18 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 raven | acl:relcl |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 flew | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 flew | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 flew | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 man | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 man | punct |
| 27 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 28 man | discourse |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | ccomp |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 man | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 village | case |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 village | det |
| 32 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 man | nmod |
| 33 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 able | nsubj |
| 34 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 37 able | aux |
| 35 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 37 able | advmod |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 able | cop |
| 37 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 village | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 live | mark |
| 39 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 able | xcomp |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 here | punct |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 here | case |
| 42 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 live | advmod |
| 43 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 44 is | expl |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 here | cop |
| 45 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 46 luck | cc:preconj |
| 46 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 here | conj |
| 47 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 48 happiness | cc |
| 48 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 luck | conj |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 thee | case |
| 50 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 48 happiness | nmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 go | punct |
| 52 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 53 go | cc |
| 53 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 54 | into | into | ADP | _ | 56 village | case |
| 55 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 56 village | det |
| 56 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 go | obl |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 do | cc |
| 58 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 60 do | nsubj |
| 59 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 60 do | aux |
| 60 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 53 go | conj |
| 61 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 60 do | advmod |
| 62 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 60 do | punct |
| 63 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 53 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | the crows | all, away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | crows = crow | him = he | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | crows = crow | among a raven | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fly back | past | a raven | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: express | past | a raven not said here | him = he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | not is in a quote | future | thou | this village not said here | able property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | thou not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | go in a quote | infinitive | the crows not said here | another village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 10 | do in a quote | shall | thou | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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