Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 49
"If it be thine, take it, for I sounded all the depths of the sea in searching for it."
Who acts: corner, youngest daughter · What happens: be, take, sound, search · To what, where: thine, corner, depths
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 (corner, youngest daughter), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thine | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thine | cop |
| 5 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 take | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thine | punct |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sounded | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 sounded | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sounded | nsubj |
| 12 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | parataxis |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 depths | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 depths | det |
| 15 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sounded | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 depths | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 searching | mark |
| 20 | searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sounded | advcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 searching | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | infinitive | corner | thine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | imperative | corner | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sound in a quote | past | the youngest daughter = daughter | all depths of the sea | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location depth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | search in a quote | gerund | the youngest daughter = daughter not said here | for corner | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for it=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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