Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 69
"The worst of it, brother, is this," said the prince. "
Who acts: worst · What happens: be, say · To what, where: this, prince · 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 (worst), 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 worst | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 worst | det |
| 3 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 worst | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brother | punct |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worst | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 worst | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 this | cop |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 worst | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 worst | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 worst | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the worst and brother | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic |
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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