Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 56
Then his wife opened the door, and he went in and hung his sack on the peg and said, "Sit down at the table, dear wife, and you children sit down there too.
Who acts: wife, man, you · What happens: open, go in, hang, say, sit down · To what, where: door, sack, peg, dear wife, table · 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 (wife, man, you), 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 | 4 opened | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hung | cc |
| 13 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sack | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 peg | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 peg | det |
| 18 | peg | peg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Sit | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Sit | punct |
| 23 | Sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 Sit | compound:prt |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 table | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 table | det |
| 27 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Sit | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 wife | punct |
| 29 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 wife | amod |
| 30 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Sit | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sit | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sit | cc |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 sit | nsubj |
| 34 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 35 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Sit | parataxis |
| 36 | down | down | ADV | _ | 35 sit | advmod |
| 37 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 sit | advmod |
| 38 | too | too | ADV | _ | 35 sit | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | man's wife | the door | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 2 | go in | past | man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hang | past | man not said here | man's sack | the peg | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme on peg=Destination | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | sit down in a quote | infinitive | dear wife | the table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location | ||||
| 6 | sit down in a quote | present | you | there | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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