Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 79
Then the princess said, "Look! he has picked up from somewhere an under-herdsman to help him!"
Who acts: princess · What happens: say, look, pick up, help · To what, where: pig, herdsman · 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 (princess), 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 | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Look | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Look | punct |
| 7 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 picked | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 picked | aux |
| 11 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Look | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 picked | compound:prt |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 herdsman | case |
| 14 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 herdsman | advmod |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 herdsman | det |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 herdsman | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 under | punct |
| 18 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 picked | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 help | mark |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 picked | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 help | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Look | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the princess | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | pick up in a quote | present · perfect · passive | pig | a herdsman | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | pig | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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