Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 62
Why," said he, "I would not deign to touch a bow like that.
Who acts: prince, I · What happens: say, not deign, touch · To what, where: bow · 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 (prince, I), 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 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 deign | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 deign | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 deign | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 deign | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 deign | advmod |
| 11 | deign | deign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 touch | mark |
| 13 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 deign | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bow | det |
| 15 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 touch | obj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 bow | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not deign | would | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | touch | to-infinitive | I not said here | a bow | like that | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bow=Co-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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