Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 38

But the nobleman was very wrath, and cried, "Shoot me down that son of a dog!"

Who acts: nobleman · What happens: be, cry, shoot down · To what, where: nobleman · 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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 wrath	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nobleman	det
3	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrath	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wrath	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 wrath	advmod
6	wrath	wrath	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cried	cc
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wrath	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Shoot	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Shoot	punct
12	Shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Shoot	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 Shoot	compound:prt
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 son	det
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Shoot	vocative
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 dog	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dog	det
19	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 son	nmod
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 wrath	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 wrath	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the nobleman		wrath property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	the nobleman not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	shoot down in a quote	infinitive		the nobleman = nobleman	that son of a dog vocative	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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