Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 72
What more dost thou want?"--"A pretty sack indeed!" replied the man; "that sack of thine has been the cause of much mischief to me and mine."--"What mischief has it done thee?"--"Why, look now, old father, I'll tell thee what it has done.
Who acts: thou, pretty sack, I · What happens: want, reply, be, do, look, tell · To what, where: man, thee, mischief · 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 (thou, pretty sack, 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 want | obj |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 What | amod |
| 3 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 replied | advcl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 sack | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sack | punct |
| 10 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sack | det |
| 11 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sack | amod |
| 12 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 12 sack | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 sack | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sack | punct |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 replied | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 sack | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 sack | punct |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 sack | det |
| 22 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 replied | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 cause | case |
| 24 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 cause | nmod:poss |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 cause | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 cause | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cause | det |
| 28 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sack | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 mischief | case |
| 30 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 mischief | amod |
| 31 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cause | nmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 me | case |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 mischief | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 mine | cc |
| 35 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 me | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 sack | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 sack | punct |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 44 done | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 has | punct |
| 40 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 41 mischief | det |
| 41 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 has | nsubj |
| 42 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 done | aux |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 has | obj |
| 44 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 replied | parataxis |
| 45 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 done | obj |
| 46 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 44 done | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 done | punct |
| 48 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 52 look | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 look | punct |
| 50 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 52 look | advmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 look | punct |
| 52 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 replied | conj |
| 53 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 52 look | advmod |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 father | punct |
| 55 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 father | amod |
| 56 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 look | vocative |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 tell | punct |
| 58 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 60 tell | nsubj |
| 59 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 60 tell | aux |
| 60 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 look | parataxis |
| 61 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 60 tell | iobj |
| 62 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 65 done | obj |
| 63 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 65 done | nsubj:pass |
| 64 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 65 done | aux |
| 65 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 60 tell | ccomp |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present · do-support | thou | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | a pretty sack | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | of thine cause; of much mischief to me | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | present · perfect | thee | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | look | infinitive | a pretty sack not said here | now | old father vocative | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | future | I | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | do | present · perfect · passive | mischief | tree rules |
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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