Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 87
"Nay, but," said the prince, "the princess has not yet come out upon the balcony to drink tea with the serpents, and see me kiss the pig before it goes out, as is her wont."
Who acts: prince, princess, tea · What happens: say, not come out, drink, see, kiss, go out · To what, where: tea, prince, pig · 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 (prince, princess, tea), 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 | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 but | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 but | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 come | advmod |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 balcony | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 balcony | det |
| 21 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 drink | mark |
| 23 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | advcl |
| 24 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drink | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 serpents | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 serpents | det |
| 27 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 drink | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 see | cc |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 see | obj |
| 32 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 see | xcomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 pig | det |
| 34 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 kiss | obj |
| 35 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 37 goes | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 goes | nsubj |
| 37 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 kiss | advcl |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 goes | compound:prt |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 wont | punct |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 wont | case |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 wont | cop |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 wont | nmod:poss |
| 43 | wont | wont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | parataxis |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 wont | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 wont | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not come out in a quote | present | the princess | yet | upon the balcony; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | drink in a quote | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | tea | with the serpents | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient | |||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | the prince not said here | the prince = prince | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | kiss in a quote | infinitive | the prince = prince not said here | the pig | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | go out in a quote | present | tea | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | as princess's wont | 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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