Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 114
All five are following him, and he is as well as ever!"--"Ask him to get thee fox's milk!" said the serpent; "perhaps when he goes for it his beasts will leave him in the lurch!"
Who acts: All, Hail, beasts · What happens: follow, be, ask, get, say, go · To what, where: Hail, thee, serpent, lurch · 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 (All, Hail, beasts), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 following | nsubj |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 All | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 following | aux |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 said | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 following | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ever | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ever | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ever | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ever | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 13 ever | cc |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 as | fixed |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 as | fixed |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 following | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 ever | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 ever | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ask | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ask | punct |
| 18 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 following | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 Ask | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 get | mark |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Ask | xcomp |
| 22 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 get | obj |
| 23 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 milk | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 fox | case |
| 25 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ask | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ask | punct |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 serpent | det |
| 30 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 said | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 goes | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 goes | punct |
| 33 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 36 goes | advmod |
| 34 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 36 goes | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 goes | nsubj |
| 36 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 said | ccomp |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 goes | obl |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 40 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 leave | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 leave | aux |
| 42 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 goes | parataxis |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 leave | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 lurch | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 lurch | det |
| 46 | lurch | lurch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 leave | obl |
| 47 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 42 leave | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present · progressive | All | Hail | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Hail | ever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | Hail | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | thee | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary milk=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the serpent | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | present | Hail | for milk; perhaps property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | leave | future | Hail's beasts | Hail | the lurch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in lurch=Location |
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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