Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 84
Why, this is no horse, but a mare.
Who acts: this · What happens: be · To what, where: horse
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 (this), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 horse | punct |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 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 | 1 Why | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mare | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 mare | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mare | det |
| 10 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 horse | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | no horse but a mare | 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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