Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 96
"I have nothing to do with thee at all," said he, "but when thou dost come up to the prince, fall down before him, and stretch out thy legs toward him!"
Who acts: Ivan, thou · What happens: have, do, say, come up, fall down, stretch out · To what, where: nothing, all, legs · 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 (Ivan, thou), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 thee | case |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 do | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 do | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 he | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 he | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 dost | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 dost | advmod |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 dost | nsubj |
| 20 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | obl |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 21 come | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 prince | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fall | punct |
| 27 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 come | conj |
| 28 | down | down | ADP | _ | 27 fall | compound:prt |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fall | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stretch | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 stretch | cc |
| 33 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 stretch | compound:prt |
| 35 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 legs | nmod:poss |
| 36 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 stretch | obj |
| 37 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 stretch | obl |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 stretch | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 stretch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Ivan | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Ivan not said here | nothing not said here | all | with thee | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Ivan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | thou | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | come up in a quote | present | to the prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prince=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | fall down in a quote | infinitive | before Ivan | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location | |||||
| 7 | stretch out in a quote | infinitive | thy legs | toward Ivan | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
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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