Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 26
I shall know better in future; in future I will not blow away the poor man's corn.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, not blow away · To what, where: future, corn
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 know | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 future | case |
| 6 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 blow | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 future | case |
| 9 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blow | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 blow | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 blow | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 blow | advmod |
| 13 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADP | _ | 13 blow | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 corn | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 man | case |
| 19 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blow | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | shall | I | future | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | not blow away | future | I | the poor man's corn | in future | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent corn=Patient in future=Topic |
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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