Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 87
"Good!" said the serpent, "let him try!"
Who acts: serpent · What happens: say, let, try · To what, where: serpent · 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 (serpent), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 serpent | det |
| 7 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the serpent | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | serpent | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | try in a quote | infinitive | serpent 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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