Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 169
Then he took and showed him his silver money, and said, "That's the sort of barley I thresh on my threshing-floor!"
Who acts: man, That · What happens: take, show, say, be, thresh · To what, where: silver money, man, sort, threshing floor, barley · 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, That), 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 showed | cc |
| 5 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 showed | iobj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 money | nmod:poss |
| 8 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 money | compound |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 showed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sort | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 sort | punct |
| 15 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 sort | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sort | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sort | det |
| 18 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 barley | case |
| 20 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sort | nmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 thresh | nsubj |
| 22 | thresh | thresh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 barley | acl:relcl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 floor | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 floor | nmod:poss |
| 25 | threshing | threshing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 floor | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 threshing | punct |
| 27 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sort | nmod |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | show | past | man not said here | man's silver money | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient money=Topic | |||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | That | the sort | my threshing floor | of barley | tree rules | ||
| 5 | thresh in a quote | present | man | barley not said here | tree rules |
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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