Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 18
And about the second cockcrow something else came to the window and said, "Oh, thou son of a dog! thou didst say, 'If we had but a warm hut, and a white bed, and soft bread, and sour kvas, we should have naught to complain of, but would tell tales and feign fables till dawn'; but now thou hast forgotten thy fine promises!
Who acts: something, thou, we, sour kvas, thy · What happens: come, say, son, do, have, complain · To what, where: window, white bed, naught, tales, fables, fine promises · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, thou, we, sour kvas), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 cockcrow | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cockcrow | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 cockcrow | amod |
| 5 | cockcrow | cockcrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 came | nsubj |
| 7 | else | else | ADV | _ | 6 something | advmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 window | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 window | det |
| 11 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 son | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 son | punct |
| 16 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 19 son | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Oh | punct |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 son | nsubj |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 dog | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dog | det |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 24 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 didst | nsubj |
| 25 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | parataxis |
| 26 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 didst | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 29 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 had | mark |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 say | parataxis |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 hut | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 hut | det |
| 34 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 hut | amod |
| 35 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 had | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 bed | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 bed | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 bed | det |
| 39 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 bed | amod |
| 40 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 didst | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 bread | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 bread | cc |
| 43 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 bread | amod |
| 44 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 didst | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 have | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 have | cc |
| 47 | sour | sour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 kvas | amod |
| 48 | kvas | kvas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 have | nsubj:outer |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 kvas | punct |
| 50 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 have | nsubj |
| 51 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 have | aux |
| 52 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 didst | parataxis |
| 53 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 52 have | obj |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 complain | mark |
| 55 | complain | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 53 naught | acl |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 complain | obl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 tell | punct |
| 58 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 60 tell | cc |
| 59 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 60 tell | aux |
| 60 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 52 have | parataxis |
| 61 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 60 tell | obj |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 feign | cc |
| 63 | feign | feign | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 60 tell | conj |
| 64 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 63 feign | obj |
| 65 | till | till | ADP | _ | 66 dawn | case |
| 66 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 feign | obl |
| 67 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 66 dawn | punct |
| 68 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 72 hast | punct |
| 69 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 72 hast | cc |
| 70 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 72 hast | advmod |
| 71 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 72 hast | nsubj |
| 72 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 73 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 72 hast | xcomp |
| 74 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 76 promises | nmod:poss |
| 75 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 76 promises | amod |
| 76 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 73 forgotten | obj |
| 77 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | something | the window | about the second cockcrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | son in a quote | thou | of a dog | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | past | thou | a white bed | soft bread obl | tree rules | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | thou not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | we | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | have in a quote | should | sour kvas | naught | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Patient | ||||
| 8 | complain speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | sour kvas not said here | naught not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | tell speech: assert in a quote | would | tales | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | |||||
| 10 | feign in a quote | infinitive | fables | dawn | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fable=Patient | ||||
| 11 | have in a quote | present | thou | now | tree rules | ||||
| 12 | forget in a quote | participle | thou not said here | thy fine promises | tree rules | ||||
| 13 | promise in a quote | thy | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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