Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 166
But the poor man answered, "Don't ask me, brother.
Who acts: poor man · What happens: answer, not ask · To what, where: poor man · 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 (poor man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 8 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 ask | advmod |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brother | punct |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | vocative |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the poor man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the poor man = man | brother vocative | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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