Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 43
But the huntsman said, "My master, bid them bring hither into the courtyard an old mare fit for naught but the knacker."
Who acts: huntsman, master · What happens: say, bid, bring · To what, where: huntsmen, courtyard · 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 (huntsman, master), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 huntsman | det |
| 3 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bid | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 master | nmod:poss |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bid | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 master | punct |
| 10 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bid | obj |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bid | xcomp |
| 13 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 12 bring | advmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 courtyard | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 courtyard | det |
| 16 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obl |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fit | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fit | amod |
| 19 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fit | compound |
| 20 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 courtyard | appos |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 naught | case |
| 22 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 20 fit | nmod |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 knacker | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 knacker | det |
| 25 | knacker | knacker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fit | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bid | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the huntsman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bid in a quote | infinitive | My master | huntsmen = huntsman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | infinitive | My master not said here | the courtyard | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into courtyard=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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