Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 82
Nay, my dear love," cried she, "wherefore dost thou burst into tears?
Who acts: dear love, thou, my · What happens: cry, do, burst, love · To what, where: child, tears
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 (dear love, thou, my), 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 8 cried | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 love | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 love | amod |
| 5 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dost | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 dost | punct |
| 12 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 dost | advmod |
| 13 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 burst | nsubj |
| 15 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dost | ccomp |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 tears | case |
| 17 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 burst | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | my dear love | child | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | present | my dear love not said here | wherefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | burst | past | thou | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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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