Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 20
Why dost thou call us, O Ivan Golik?" said they.
Who acts: thou, daughters · What happens: call, say · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (thou, daughters), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 call | advmod |
| 2 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 call | nsubj |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ivan | punct |
| 7 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 8 Ivan | case |
| 8 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 call | obj |
| 9 | Golik | Golik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ivan | flat |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · do-support | thou | us | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme ivan=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | daughters = daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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