Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 88
Are there no barns outside where thou mayst put it up?"--"Hold your tongues, ye accursed wretches!" replied the man; "what has it got to do with you?
Who acts: barns, ye, wretches, ram · What happens: be, hold, accurs, reply, get, do · To what, where: tongues, 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 (barns, ye, wretches, ram), 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | cop |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 put | expl |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 barns | det |
| 4 | barns | barn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 put | nsubj |
| 5 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 9 put | advmod |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 put | advmod |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 put | nsubj |
| 8 | mayst | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | aux |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 put | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hold | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hold | punct |
| 16 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | parataxis |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tongues | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Hold | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 accursed | punct |
| 20 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 accursed | nsubj |
| 21 | accursed | accurs | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Hold | advcl |
| 22 | wretches | wretch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 replied | nsubj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 wretches | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 wretches | punct |
| 25 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 accursed | ccomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 replied | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 got | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 got | punct |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 33 got | obj |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 got | aux |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 got | nsubj |
| 33 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 Hold | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 do | mark |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 got | xcomp |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 you | case |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 do | obl |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may · present | no barns | there | outside, put property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold | infinitive | your tongues | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | |||||
| 3 | accurs | past | ye | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | wretches | the man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 5 | get | present · perfect | ram | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | ram not said here | with you | vn act-114-1 «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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