Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 168
Then he took him to his copper money, and said, "There are my oats, brother!"
Who acts: man, oats · What happens: take, say, be · To what, where: brother, copper money · 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 (man, oats), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 money | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 money | nmod:poss |
| 7 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 money | compound |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 are | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 are | punct |
| 14 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 are | expl |
| 15 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 oats | nmod:poss |
| 17 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 are | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brother | punct |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 oats | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | brother | man's copper money | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to money=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | does in a quote | present | my oats and brother | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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