Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 12
Then Armless said, "Take the hare and be my elder brother!"
Who acts: Armless · What happens: say, take, be · To what, where: hare, elder brother · 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 (Armless), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Armless | Armless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 6 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hare | det |
| 8 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Take | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brother | cc |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 brother | cop |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brother | amod |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Take | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Armless | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | the hare | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument hare=Destination | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | infinitive | my elder brother | 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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