Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 41
Armless wanted to plunge in straightway, but Legless shrieked, "Wait, brother!
Who acts: Armless, Legless · What happens: want, plunge, shriek, wait · To what, where: brother
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, Legless), 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 | Armless | Armless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 plunge | mark |
| 4 | plunge | plunge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 straightway | case |
| 6 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plunge | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shrieked | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 shrieked | cc |
| 9 | Legless | Legless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 shrieked | nsubj |
| 10 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wanted | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Wait | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Wait | punct |
| 13 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 shrieked | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brother | punct |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Wait | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Armless | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | plunge not said to happen | to-infinitive | Armless not said here | in straightway | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in straightway=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | shriek | past | Legless | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | wait in a quote | infinitive | Legless not said here | brother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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