Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 5
Then said the serpent, "'Tis well, let us go!
Who acts: Tis, us · What happens: say, let, go · To what, where: serpent, 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 (Tis, us), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 serpent | det |
| 4 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tis | punct |
| 8 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 let | nsubj |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 let | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 well | punct |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the serpent | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | Tis | us | well property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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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