Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 110
Then the hare said, "Hail to thee, little Tsar Novishny; because thou hast let me go--I thought thou wouldst have torn me to pieces with thy dogs--I'll give thee a leveret."
Who acts: hare, thou · What happens: say, have, let, go, think, tear · To what, where: Hail, hare, thou, leveret, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, thou), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hare | det |
| 3 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Hail | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Hail | punct |
| 7 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 thee | case |
| 9 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 Hail | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tsar | punct |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Tsar | amod |
| 12 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Hail | appos |
| 13 | Novishny | Novishny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Tsar | flat |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 hast | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 hast | mark |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 hast | nsubj |
| 17 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hast | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 thought | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 thought | nsubj |
| 23 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 24 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | wouldst | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 27 torn | aux |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 torn | aux |
| 27 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 thought | ccomp |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 torn | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 pieces | case |
| 30 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 torn | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 dogs | case |
| 32 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 33 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 torn | obl |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 give | punct |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 give | nsubj |
| 36 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 give | aux |
| 37 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 38 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 give | iobj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 leveret | det |
| 40 | leveret | leveret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 give | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 give | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the hare | Hail | then | to thee | tree rules | ||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | thou not said here | the hare = hare | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | the hare = hare not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other in a quote | past | the hare = hare | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | tear in a quote | would · perfect · passive | thou | to pieces; with thy dogs | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ PP.instrument»: subject=Patient i=Result with dog=Instrument | ||||
| 7 | give in a quote | future | the hare = hare | a leveret | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient leveret=Theme |
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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