Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 113
Let him walk round them a third time, and then I'll settle on her nose, and she will not be able to endure my bite, but will strike at me with her right hand."
Who acts: you, prince, I, mare, my · What happens: let, walk, settle, not be, endure, strike · To what, where: prince, bite
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, prince, I, mare), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walk | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walk | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 settle | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 settle | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 settle | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 settle | nsubj |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 settle | aux |
| 14 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 nose | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 nose | nmod:poss |
| 17 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 settle | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 able | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 able | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 able | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 able | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 able | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 able | cop |
| 24 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 settle | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 endure | mark |
| 26 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 able | xcomp |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 bite | nmod:poss |
| 28 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 endure | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 strike | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 strike | cc |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 strike | aux |
| 32 | strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 strike | obl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 hand | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 hand | nmod:poss |
| 37 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 hand | amod |
| 38 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 strike | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | infinitive | prince not said here | time | round daughters = daughter | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | settle | future | I | then | on mare's nose | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on nose=Topic | |||
| 4 | not is | future | mare | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | endure | to-infinitive | mare not said here | my bite | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bite=Circumstance | ||||
| 6 | strike | future | you not said here | at me; with mare's right hand | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at i=Patient with hand=Instrument | ||||
| 7 | bite | my | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=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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