Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 117

But his sister fell a-weeping, and said, "Why dost thou keep such monstrous dogs?"

Who acts: sister · What happens: fall, say, do, keep · To what, where: weeping, thou, such monstrous dogs · 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 (sister), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 fell	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sister	nmod:poss
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 weeping	det
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 a	punct
7	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dost	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 dost	punct
13	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 dost	advmod
14	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 dost	obj
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 dost	xcomp
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dogs	amod
18	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dogs	amod
19	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 keep	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fall	past	Tsar's sister	a weeping	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient weeping=Result
2	say speech: ask	past	Tsar's sister not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	present		thou	tree rules
4	keep in a quote	infinitive		such monstrous dogs	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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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