Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 90
Then the lieutenant-general of the gnats came flying up and said, "Oh, Ivan Golik! let my host drink of thy blood.
Who acts: lieutenant general, Ivan · What happens: come, fly up, say, let · To what, where: host drink · 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 (lieutenant general, Ivan), 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 | 9 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 general | det |
| 3 | lieutenant | lieutenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 general | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 lieutenant | punct |
| 5 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gnats | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gnats | det |
| 8 | gnats | gnat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 general | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 came | xcomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 flying | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 16 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 21 let | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Oh | punct |
| 18 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 let | nsubj |
| 19 | Golik | Golik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ivan | flat |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ivan | punct |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 drink | nmod:poss |
| 23 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drink | compound |
| 24 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 let | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 blood | case |
| 26 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 blood | nmod:poss |
| 27 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drink | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the lieutenant general of the gnats | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly up | gerund | the lieutenant general of the gnats not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the lieutenant general of the gnats not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | Ivan | my host drink of thy blood | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=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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