Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 113
What a wily rogue it is!" said they. "
Who acts: rogue, wily rogue · What happens: be, say · To what, where: wily rogue · 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 (rogue, wily rogue), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 rogue | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rogue | det |
| 3 | wily | wily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rogue | amod |
| 4 | rogue | rogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 is | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rogue | acl:relcl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 rogue | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rogue | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | rogue | what wily rogue not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rogue=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | what wily rogue | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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