Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 116
Page 161: Added opening double-quote ("Have no fear of that!" replied the old couple.
Who acts: Page · What happens: add, open, have, reply, fear · To what, where: Page, double quote, fear, old couple, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Page), 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 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | 161 | 161 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 4 | Added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Page | acl |
| 5 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 Added | advcl |
| 6 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 quote | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 quote | punct |
| 8 | quote | quote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opening | obj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 Have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Have | punct |
| 11 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 quote | parataxis |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 fear | det |
| 13 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Have | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 that | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 fear | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 Have | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Have | punct |
| 18 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 couple | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 couple | amod |
| 21 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 replied | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | participle | Page not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | open | gerund | double quote | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location quote=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | no fear of that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | Page | the old couple | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent couple=Topic | ||||
| 5 | fear in a quote | that | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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