Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 67
Maybe he had been a whole year in the whale without knowing it, and he thought to himself, "How shall I now manage to live in the wide, wide world?"
Who acts: Prince · What happens: know, be, manage, live · To what, where: whale, Prince, wide wide world · 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), 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 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 4 been | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 been | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 been | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 thought | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 year | amod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 been | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 whale | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 whale | det |
| 10 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 year | nmod |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 knowing | mark |
| 12 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 been | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knowing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thought | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 himself | case |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 thought | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 manage | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 manage | punct |
| 22 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 manage | advmod |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 manage | aux |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 manage | nsubj |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 manage | advmod |
| 26 | manage | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 thought | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 live | mark |
| 28 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 manage | xcomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 31 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 world | amod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wide | punct |
| 33 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 world | amod |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 live | obl |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 manage | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 manage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | Prince not said here | whale | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be speech: other | participle | Prince | Prince | think property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | manage in a quote | shall | Prince | now | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | the wide wide world | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
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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