Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 32
I thank thee, O Wind!" said he, "for thy courtesy in giving me such a sack as will give me my fill of meat and drink without the trouble of working for it."--"For a lazy loon, 'twere a double boon," said the Wind. "
Who acts: I, Wind, courtesy, trouble, lazy loon · What happens: thank, say, give, work · To what, where: thee, sack, me, fill · 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, Wind, courtesy, trouble), 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 | 2 thank | nsubj |
| 2 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 thank | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 5 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 9 said | mark |
| 6 | Wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wind | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wind | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thank | conj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 courtesy | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 courtesy | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 courtesy | case |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 courtesy | nmod:poss |
| 15 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 giving | mark |
| 17 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 courtesy | acl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 giving | iobj |
| 19 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 sack | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sack | det |
| 21 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 giving | obj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 give | mark |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 give | aux |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 fill | nmod:poss |
| 27 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 give | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 meat | case |
| 29 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fill | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 drink | cc |
| 31 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fill | conj |
| 32 | without | without | ADP | _ | 34 trouble | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 trouble | det |
| 34 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 give | obl |
| 35 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 36 working | mark |
| 36 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 trouble | acl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 working | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thank | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 thank | punct |
| 41 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 46 loon | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 loon | punct |
| 43 | For | for | ADP | _ | 46 loon | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 loon | det |
| 45 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 loon | amod |
| 46 | loon | loon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 said | nsubj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 boon | punct |
| 48 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 52 boon | punct |
| 49 | twere | twere | ADV | _ | 52 boon | advmod |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 boon | det |
| 51 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 boon | amod |
| 52 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 loon | appos |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 boon | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 boon | punct |
| 55 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thank | conj |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 Wind | det |
| 57 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 said | nsubj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thank | punct |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | present | I | thee | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | gerund | thy courtesy not said here | such sack | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sack=Theme | |||
| 4 | give | future | my fill of meat and drink | me | without the trouble | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient fill=Theme | |||
| 5 | work | gerund | the trouble not said here | for Wind | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | a lazy loon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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