Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 136
So the children hastened away, but the husband came to the door and said, "Open the door!"--"Open the door thyself," replied the wife.--Again the husband bade her open the door, but she paid no heed to him.
Who acts: children, husband, wife · What happens: hasten away, come, say, open, reply, bade · To what, where: door, wife, heed, husband · 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 (children, husband, wife), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 hastened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hastened | nsubj |
| 4 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 hastened | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 husband | det |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hastened | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Open | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Open | punct |
| 18 | Open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Open | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 Open | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Open | punct |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 Open | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Open | punct |
| 25 | Open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Open | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 door | det |
| 27 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Open | obj |
| 28 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 25 Open | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 replied | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 replied | punct |
| 31 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hastened | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 wife | det |
| 33 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 replied | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 replied | punct |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 bade | punct |
| 36 | Again | again | SCONJ | _ | 39 bade | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 husband | det |
| 38 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bade | nsubj |
| 39 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 replied | conj |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 bade | obj |
| 41 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 bade | xcomp |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 door | det |
| 43 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 open | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 paid | punct |
| 45 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 paid | cc |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 paid | nsubj |
| 47 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 replied | conj |
| 48 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 49 heed | det |
| 49 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 paid | obj |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 him | case |
| 51 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 paid | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten away | participle | the children | away property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the husband | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the husband not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | open in a quote | infinitive | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||||
| 5 | open in a quote | infinitive | the door | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent door=Theme thyself=Destination | |||||
| 6 | reply speech: assert | past | the wife | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | bade | past | the husband | wife | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | open | infinitive | the husband not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 9 | pay | past | wife | no heed | husband | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset |
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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