Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 69
They have never yet gone a-ploughing for me, or done a day's work.
Who acts: oxen, day · What happens: not go, do, work · To what, where: ploughing, work
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 (oxen, day), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 gone | advmod |
| 4 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 gone | advmod |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ploughing | det |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 a | punct |
| 8 | ploughing | ploughing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 done | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 done | cc |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 gone | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 work | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 day | case |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 done | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | present · perfect | oxen = ox | a ploughing | yet | for me | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ploughing=Theme | ||
| 2 | do | participle | oxen = ox not said here | a day's work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | work | a day | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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