Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 98
The husband arrived at the door and said, "Open the door, little wife; open, I say!"--The wife replied, "Thou art not a great nobleman, so open the door thyself.
Who acts: husband, Thou · What happens: arrive, say, open, reply, not be · To what, where: door, wife, great nobleman · 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 (husband, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 husband | det |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrived | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Open | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Open | punct |
| 11 | Open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Open | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wife | punct |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wife | amod |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 door | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 open | punct |
| 18 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Open | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 say | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 say | nsubj |
| 21 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Open | parataxis |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 say | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 say | punct |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 wife | punct |
| 25 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wife | det |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Open | obl |
| 27 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 wife | acl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 nobleman | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 nobleman | punct |
| 30 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 nobleman | nsubj |
| 31 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 nobleman | cop |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 nobleman | advmod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 nobleman | det |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 nobleman | amod |
| 35 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wife | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 open | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 open | advmod |
| 38 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Open | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 door | det |
| 40 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 open | obj |
| 41 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 38 open | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the husband | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the husband not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | open in a quote | infinitive | the door and little wife | the wife and a great nobleman obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the husband = husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | reply speech: assert | participle | the wife and a great nobleman not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not is a in a quote | present | Thou | a great nobleman | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | open in a quote | infinitive | the door | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent door=Theme thyself=Destination |
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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