Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 77
But that horse is no horse at all, but the serpent's youngest daughter!
Who acts: horse · What happens: be · To what, where: horse, all
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 (horse), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 horse | cc |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 horse | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 horse | cop |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 horse | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 daughter | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 daughter | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 serpent | det |
| 12 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 serpent | case |
| 14 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 daughter | amod |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 horse | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 horse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that horse | no horse but the serpent's youngest daughter | all | tree rules |
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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