Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 36
How can a man pass a tavern without going into it?" thought he; "I'll go in, come what may.
Who acts: man, I · What happens: pass, go, think, go in, come · To what, where: tavern, man · 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, 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 pass | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pass | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | nsubj |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tavern | det |
| 7 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | obj |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 going | mark |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 thought | advcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 going | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pass | parataxis |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 19 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 go | conj |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 come | advcl |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 what | aux |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | can | a man | a tavern | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | tavern | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | past | man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go in | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come | infinitive | I not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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