Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 50
And he continued, and said, "About the third cockcrow something else came to the window and said the selfsame thing, and added, 'This shall befall thy lord on his way home.
Who acts: horse, something, This · What happens: continue, say, come, add, befall · To what, where: window, selfsame thing, lord, way · 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 (horse, something, This), 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 | _ | 3 continued | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 continued | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 9 | About | about | ADP | _ | 13 something | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cockcrow | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 cockcrow | amod |
| 12 | cockcrow | cockcrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 something | nsubj |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 came | nsubj |
| 14 | else | else | ADV | _ | 13 something | advmod |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 thing | det |
| 22 | selfsame | selfsame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 thing | amod |
| 23 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 added | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 added | cc |
| 26 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 continued | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 befall | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 befall | punct |
| 29 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 befall | nsubj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 befall | aux |
| 31 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 added | ccomp |
| 32 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 lord | nmod:poss |
| 33 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 befall | obj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 way | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 way | nmod:poss |
| 36 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 befall | obl |
| 37 | home | home | ADV | _ | 36 way | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | horse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | horse not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | something | the window | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | something not said here | the selfsame thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 5 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | horse not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | befall in a quote | shall | This | thy lord | horse's way | tree rules |
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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