Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 101
Here we are with all these little children, and yet thou dost go away and drink."--Then the wife opened the door, and the husband walked into the hut and said, "Good health to thee, dear wife!"--But the wife cried, "Why dost thou bring that ram inside the hut, can't it stay outside the walls?"--"Wife, wife!" said the man, "speak, but don't screech.
Who acts: we, thou, wife, husband, door, man · What happens: be, do, go away, drink, open, walk · To what, where: door, hut, thou, ram, walls · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, thou, wife, husband), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 go | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 children | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 children | cop |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 children | det:predet |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 children | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 children | amod |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Here | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dost | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dost | cc |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 dost | advmod |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 dost | nsubj |
| 13 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | parataxis |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drink | cc |
| 17 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 opened | punct |
| 21 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 opened | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wife | det |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 opened | nsubj |
| 24 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 door | det |
| 26 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 opened | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 walked | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 walked | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 husband | det |
| 30 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 walked | nsubj |
| 31 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 opened | conj |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 hut | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 hut | det |
| 34 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 walked | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 said | cc |
| 36 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 walked | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 health | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 health | punct |
| 39 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 health | amod |
| 40 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 said | ccomp |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 thee | case |
| 42 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 health | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 wife | punct |
| 44 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 wife | amod |
| 45 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 health | parataxis |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 45 wife | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 wife | punct |
| 48 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 52 cried | punct |
| 49 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 52 cried | cc |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 wife | det |
| 51 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 cried | nsubj |
| 52 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 opened | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 dost | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 56 dost | punct |
| 55 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 56 dost | advmod |
| 56 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 cried | parataxis |
| 57 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 56 dost | obj |
| 58 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 56 dost | xcomp |
| 59 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 60 ram | det |
| 60 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 bring | obj |
| 61 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 63 hut | case |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 hut | det |
| 63 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 ram | nmod |
| 64 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 stay | punct |
| 65 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 68 stay | aux |
| 66 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 68 stay | advmod |
| 67 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 68 stay | nsubj |
| 68 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 56 dost | conj |
| 69 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 71 walls | case |
| 70 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 71 walls | det |
| 71 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 68 stay | obl |
| 72 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 52 cried | punct |
| 73 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 cried | punct |
| 74 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 76 Wife | punct |
| 75 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 76 Wife | punct |
| 76 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 81 said | nsubj |
| 77 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 78 wife | punct |
| 78 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 76 Wife | conj |
| 79 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 76 Wife | punct |
| 80 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 76 Wife | punct |
| 81 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 cried | parataxis |
| 82 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 83 man | det |
| 83 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 81 said | nsubj |
| 84 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 86 speak | punct |
| 85 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 86 speak | punct |
| 86 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 83 man | acl:relcl |
| 87 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 91 screech | punct |
| 88 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 91 screech | cc |
| 89 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 91 screech | aux |
| 90 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 91 screech | advmod |
| 91 | screech | screech | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 opened | conj |
| 92 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | we | with all little children | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present | thou | yet | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go away | present | here | away property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | open in a quote | past | the wife | the door | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 6 | walk in a quote | past | the husband | the hut | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hut=Destination | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the husband not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | do | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | bring | infinitive | that ram | the hut | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ram=Theme | ||||
| 11 | not stay | can | door | the walls | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside wall=Location | ||||
| 12 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Wife and wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 13 | speak speech: other | infinitive | the man not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 14 | not screech | infinitive · do-support | the wife not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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