Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 97
He chops his wood with me, and gives me a place to lie down in; so I'll not have him disturbed."--Then the Devil cried to the gimlet, "Gimlet, gimlet, where has the Tsar hidden his children?"--But the gimlet replied, "The Tsar has always been a good master to me.
Who acts: TSAR, I, Devil, gimlet · What happens: chop, give, lie down, not have, disturb, cry · To what, where: wood, place, me, TSAR, gimlet, children · 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 (TSAR, I, Devil, gimlet), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 chops | nsubj |
| 2 | chops | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wood | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chops | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 chops | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gives | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gives | cc |
| 9 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 chops | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 gives | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 lie | mark |
| 14 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 place | acl |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 lie | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 lie | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 have | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 20 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 have | advmod |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 chops | parataxis |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 have | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 cried | punct |
| 28 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 cried | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Devil | det |
| 30 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 cried | nsubj |
| 31 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 chops | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 gimlet | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 gimlet | det |
| 34 | gimlet | gimlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cried | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Gimlet | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Gimlet | punct |
| 37 | Gimlet | gimlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gimlet | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 gimlet | punct |
| 39 | gimlet | gimlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gimlet | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 has | punct |
| 41 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 has | advmod |
| 42 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 gimlet | acl:relcl |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Tsar | det |
| 44 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 hidden | nsubj |
| 45 | hidden | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 has | advcl |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 children | nmod:poss |
| 47 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 hidden | obj |
| 48 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 45 hidden | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 hidden | punct |
| 50 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 54 replied | punct |
| 51 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 54 replied | cc |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 gimlet | det |
| 53 | gimlet | gimlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 replied | nsubj |
| 54 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 cried | parataxis |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 master | punct |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 64 master | punct |
| 57 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 Tsar | det |
| 58 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 64 master | nsubj |
| 59 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 64 master | aux |
| 60 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 64 master | advmod |
| 61 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 64 master | cop |
| 62 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 64 master | det |
| 63 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 64 master | amod |
| 64 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 replied | conj |
| 65 | to | to | ADP | _ | 66 me | case |
| 66 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 64 master | nmod |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chops | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop | present | TSAR | TSAR's wood | with me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | present | TSAR not said here | a place | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient place=Theme | |||
| 3 | lie down | to-infinitive | TSAR not said here | a place not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not have | future | I | TSAR | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | disturb | participle | TSAR not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the Devil | the gimlet and Gimlet and gimlet | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to gimlet=Recipient | |||
| 7 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | hide | past | the Tsar | TSAR's children | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 9 | reply speech: assert in a quote | participle | the gimlet | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | is a | present · perfect | the Tsar | a good master | me | always property | 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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