Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 36
The nobleman felt that he must rest in that bed or die.
Who acts: nobleman · What happens: feel, rest, die · To what, where: bed
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 (nobleman), 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 nobleman | det |
| 2 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 rest | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rest | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 rest | aux |
| 7 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 felt | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 bed | det |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rest | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 die | cc |
| 12 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rest | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the nobleman | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rest | must | nobleman | that bed | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||||
| 3 | die | infinitive | nobleman not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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