Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 47
He saluted them, and then went on to the daughters, and said, as he drew off the ring, "To which of you does this belong?"
Who acts: serpent, this · What happens: salute, go on, say, draw off, belong · To what, where: guests, ring · 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 (serpent, this), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saluted | nsubj |
| 2 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saluted | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 went | advmod |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saluted | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 daughters | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 daughters | det |
| 11 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saluted | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drew | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 drew | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drew | nsubj |
| 18 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 ring | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ring | det |
| 21 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drew | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 belong | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 belong | punct |
| 24 | To | to | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 belong | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 which | obl |
| 28 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 belong | aux |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 belong | nsubj |
| 30 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 drew | conj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 saluted | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 saluted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | salute | past | serpent | guests = guest | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | serpent not said here | then | to the daughters | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | draw off | past | serpent | the ring | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 5 | belong in a quote | present · do-support | this | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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