Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 72
Then the prince said to one of his servants, "Go and see what manner of man that is!"
Who acts: prince, man · What happens: say, go, see, be · To what, where: one, manner · 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, man), 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 | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 servants | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 servants | nmod:poss |
| 9 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Go | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Go | punct |
| 12 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 Go | conj |
| 15 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 16 manner | det |
| 16 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 manner | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 is | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Go | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the prince | one of Prince's servants | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | what manner of man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer manner=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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