Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 99
Why dost thou get so drunk that thou dost not know how to open a door?
Who acts: thou · What happens: get, not know, open · To what, where: door · 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), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 get | advmod |
| 2 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 drunk | advmod |
| 6 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 know | nsubj |
| 9 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 drunk | advcl |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 open | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 open | mark |
| 14 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 know | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 open | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · do-support | thou | drunk property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | open | to-infinitive | a door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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