Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 24
Then I thought to myself, 'Why should he do this?'
Who acts: I, trace · What happens: think, do · To what, where: myself, this · 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 (I, trace), 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 thought | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 myself | case |
| 5 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 do | advmod |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | myself | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | should | trace | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
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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