Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 150
Sit down, my children, and thou too, dear wife, and eat thy fill.
Who acts: you · What happens: sit down, eat · To what, where: children, fill
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 (you), 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 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Sit | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 children | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 children | nmod:poss |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sit | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thou | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thou | cc |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Sit | conj |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Sit | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wife | punct |
| 11 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wife | amod |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sit | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eat | cc |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sit | advcl |
| 16 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 fill | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eat | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | imperative | you not said here | my children | dear wife obl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | eat | present | you not said here | thy fill | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient |
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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