Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 75
When they lead forth this horse, look at it and say, 'I will not mount that horse lest I put myself to shame. '
Who acts: pieces, you, I · What happens: lead, look, say, not mount, put, shame · To what, where: horse, myself · 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 (pieces, you, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 lead | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lead | nsubj |
| 3 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 look | advcl |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 lead | advmod |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lead | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lead | punct |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 look | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 say | cc |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 look | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mount | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 mount | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 mount | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 mount | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 mount | advmod |
| 18 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 say | ccomp |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 horse | det |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mount | obj |
| 21 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 23 put | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 put | nsubj |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 mount | advcl |
| 24 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 put | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 shame | mark |
| 26 | shame | shame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 put | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present | pieces = piece | this horse | forth property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | imperative | you not said here | at horse | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not mount | future | I | that horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 5 | put | past | I | myself | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | shame | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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