Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 4
The poor man was exceeding wrath thereat, and said, "Come what will, I'll go seek the Wind, and I'll tell him with what pains and trouble I had got my corn to grow and ripen, and then he, forsooth! must needs come and blow it all away."
Who acts: poor man, pains · What happens: exceed, say, come, go, seek, tell · To what, where: Wind, man, corn · 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 (poor man, pains), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exceeding | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 exceeding | aux |
| 5 | exceeding | exceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | wrath | wrath | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 exceeding | xcomp |
| 7 | thereat | thereat | ADV | _ | 5 exceeding | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 exceeding | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Come | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Come | punct |
| 13 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 Come | obj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | aux |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 18 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Come | conj |
| 20 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Wind | det |
| 22 | Wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seek | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tell | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tell | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 tell | nsubj |
| 26 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 tell | aux |
| 27 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Come | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tell | iobj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 what | case |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 tell | obl |
| 31 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 got | nsubj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 trouble | cc |
| 33 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pains | conj |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 got | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 got | aux |
| 36 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 what | acl:relcl |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 corn | nmod:poss |
| 38 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 got | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 grow | mark |
| 40 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 got | advcl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 ripen | cc |
| 42 | ripen | ripen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 grow | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 forsooth | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 forsooth | cc |
| 45 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 48 forsooth | advmod |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 forsooth | nsubj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 forsooth | punct |
| 48 | forsooth | forsooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 needs | ccomp |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 48 forsooth | punct |
| 50 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 needs | aux |
| 51 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 52 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 needs | xcomp |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 blow | cc |
| 54 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 come | conj |
| 55 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 blow | obj |
| 56 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 55 it | det |
| 57 | away | away | ADV | _ | 54 blow | advmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exceeding | punct |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 exceeding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exceed | past · progressive | the poor man | thereat, wrath property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the poor man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | go in a quote | future | the poor man = man | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | seek in a quote | infinitive | the poor man = man not said here | the Wind | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | the poor man = man | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | get in a quote | past · perfect | pains and trouble | my corn | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer corn=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | grow in a quote | to-infinitive | pains and trouble not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | ripen in a quote | infinitive | pains and trouble not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 10 | need in a quote | must | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 11 | come not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 12 | blow away in a quote | infinitive | Wind | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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