Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 70
Then the Wind asked, "Wherefore hast thou come hither, O man?
Who acts: Wind, thou · What happens: ask, have, come · To what, where: thou · 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 (Wind, thou), 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 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wind | det |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hast | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hast | punct |
| 7 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 hast | advmod |
| 8 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 hast | obj |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hast | xcomp |
| 11 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 13 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 14 man | discourse |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | vocative |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Wind | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | thou | wherefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | thou not said here | man vocative; hither property | 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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