Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 102
Now we shall have all manner of good things, and the children will have a fine time of it."--"What!" said the wife, "what good can we get from that wretched ram?
Who acts: we, children · What happens: have, say, get · To what, where: manner, wife, wretched ram · 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, children), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 have | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 manner | det |
| 6 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 manner | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 children | det |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 time | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 25 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 said | nsubj:outer |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 What | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 What | punct |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wife | det |
| 30 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 said | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 get | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 get | punct |
| 33 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 get | obj |
| 34 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 what | amod |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 get | aux |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 get | nsubj |
| 37 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 said | conj |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 ram | case |
| 39 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 ram | det |
| 40 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 ram | amod |
| 41 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 get | obl |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | we | all manner of good things | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | future | the children | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get | can | we | that wretched ram | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme from ram=Source |
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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