Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 98
But as they swam away, the pike turned round and said, "We thank thee, Ivan Golik, that thou hast not let us perish, and it shall be to thy weal and welfare!"
Who acts: IVAN, pike, We, that, us · What happens: swim away, turn round, say, thank, not let, perish · To what, where: thee, us · 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 (IVAN, pike, We, that), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 turned | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 swam | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swam | nsubj |
| 4 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | advcl |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 swam | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 swam | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pike | det |
| 8 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thank | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 thank | punct |
| 15 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 thank | nsubj |
| 16 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 thank | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ivan | punct |
| 19 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 thank | vocative |
| 20 | Golik | Golik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ivan | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 let | punct |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 let | nsubj:outer |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 let | nsubj |
| 24 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 let | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 let | advmod |
| 26 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thank | conj |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 let | obj |
| 28 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 let | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 weal | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 weal | cc |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 weal | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 weal | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 weal | cop |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 weal | case |
| 35 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 weal | nmod:poss |
| 36 | weal | weal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | parataxis |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 welfare | cc |
| 38 | welfare | welfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 weal | conj |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 38 welfare | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 weal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim away | past | IVAN | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn round | past | the pike | round property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the pike not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | We | thee | Ivan vocative | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 5 | not let in a quote | present | that | us | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | perish in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | shall | pike | to thy weal and welfare | 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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