Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 108
Thou dost nothing at all but go away and drink, and then thou comest home and dost talk nonsense, and bringest sacks and rams with thee, and knockest down our little hut."--At this the husband could control his rage no longer, but shrieked at the ram, "Little ram, little ram, scatter money!"--But the ram only stood there and stared at him.
Who acts: Thou, husband, ram · What happens: do, go away, drink, come, talk, bring · To what, where: nothing, all, nonsense, sacks, little hut, rage · 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 (Thou, husband, ram), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 dost | nsubj |
| 2 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 dost | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 nothing | nmod |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 go | cc |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dost | conj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drink | cc |
| 10 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 comest | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 comest | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 comest | advmod |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 comest | nsubj |
| 15 | comest | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dost | conj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 comest | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dost | cc |
| 18 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 comest | conj |
| 19 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dost | conj |
| 20 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 talk | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bringest | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bringest | cc |
| 23 | bringest | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dost | conj |
| 24 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bringest | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rams | cc |
| 26 | rams | ram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sacks | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 thee | case |
| 28 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 sacks | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 knockest | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 knockest | cc |
| 31 | knockest | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dost | conj |
| 32 | down | down | ADP | _ | 31 knockest | compound:prt |
| 33 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hut | nmod:poss |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 hut | amod |
| 35 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 knockest | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dost | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 dost | punct |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 44 control | punct |
| 39 | At | at | ADP | _ | 40 this | case |
| 40 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 control | obl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 husband | det |
| 42 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 control | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 control | aux |
| 44 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dost | parataxis |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 rage | nmod:poss |
| 46 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 control | obj |
| 47 | no | no | ADV | _ | 48 longer | advmod |
| 48 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 44 control | advmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 shrieked | punct |
| 50 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 51 shrieked | cc |
| 51 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dost | parataxis |
| 52 | at | at | ADP | _ | 54 ram | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 ram | det |
| 54 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 shrieked | obl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 ram | punct |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 58 ram | punct |
| 57 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 ram | amod |
| 58 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 ram | conj |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 ram | punct |
| 60 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 ram | amod |
| 61 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 ram | conj |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 money | punct |
| 63 | scatter | scat | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 64 money | amod |
| 64 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 ram | appos |
| 65 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 64 money | punct |
| 66 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 64 money | punct |
| 67 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 72 stood | punct |
| 68 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 72 stood | cc |
| 69 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 70 ram | det |
| 70 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 72 stood | nsubj |
| 71 | only | only | ADV | _ | 72 stood | advmod |
| 72 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 shrieked | conj |
| 73 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 72 stood | advmod |
| 74 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 75 stared | cc |
| 75 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 72 stood | conj |
| 76 | at | at | ADP | _ | 77 him | case |
| 77 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 75 stared | obl |
| 78 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Thou | nothing | all | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go away | infinitive | Thou not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drink | infinitive | Thou not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | present | thou | then | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | do | present | thou not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | talk | present | thou not said here | nonsense | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient | ||||
| 7 | bring | present | Thou not said here | sacks and rams | with thee | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | |||
| 8 | knock down | present | Thou not said here | our little hut | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hut=Patient | ||||
| 9 | control in a quote | could | the husband | husband's rage | this | long property | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rage=Theme | ||
| 10 | shriek in a quote | past | the ram and Little ram and little ram | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ram=Location | |||||
| 11 | stand in a quote | past | the ram | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 12 | stare in a quote | past | the ram not said here | at husband | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 13 | rage in a quote | husband | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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