Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 71
I'll feast my eyes on them once more, and then I'll have them driven into thy steppes--take them."--"No, that won't do either!" said the Accursed One.
Who acts: I, oxen, that · What happens: feast, have, drive, take, not do, say · To what, where: eyes, oxen, steppes, One · 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 (I, oxen, that), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 feast | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 feast | aux |
| 3 | feast | feast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feast | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 feast | obl |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 feast | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 have | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 14 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 feast | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 have | obj |
| 17 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 have | xcomp |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 steppes | case |
| 19 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 steppes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | steppes | steppe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 driven | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 feast | parataxis |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feast | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feast | punct |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 do | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 do | punct |
| 28 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 33 do | discourse |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 No | punct |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 do | nsubj |
| 31 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 do | aux |
| 32 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 do | advmod |
| 33 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 feast | conj |
| 34 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 33 do | advmod |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 feast | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feast | punct |
| 37 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 feast | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Accursed | det |
| 39 | Accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 said | ccomp |
| 40 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 Accursed | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feast | future | I | my eyes | on oxen = ox | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | future | I | oxen = ox | then | tree rules | |||
| 3 | drive | participle | oxen = ox not said here | thy steppes | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into steppe=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | oxen = ox | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not do | future | that | either property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | accurs in a quote | participle | One | 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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