Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 119
Then his sister said again, "I am ailing, my brother; go and get me fox's milk, and I shall be well."--"I'll fetch it for thee," said her brother.
Who acts: sister, Tsar, brother · What happens: say, ail, go, get, be, fetch · To what, where: brother, milk, sister · 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, Tsar, brother), 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 | 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 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ailing | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ailing | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ailing | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ailing | aux |
| 10 | ailing | ail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brother | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ailing | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 get | cc |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 get | obj |
| 19 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 milk | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 fox | case |
| 21 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 well | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 well | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 well | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 well | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 well | cop |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 go | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 fetch | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 fetch | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 fetch | nsubj |
| 33 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 fetch | aux |
| 34 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | parataxis |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 fetch | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 thee | case |
| 37 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 fetch | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fetch | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 40 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 brother | nmod:poss |
| 42 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 said | nsubj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tsar's sister | then; again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ail in a quote | present · progressive | Tsar's sister = sister | my brother | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | get in a quote | infinitive | fox's milk | Tsar's sister = sister | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary milk=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | shall | Tsar's sister = sister | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fetch in a quote | future | Tsar | milk | for thee | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme for thou=Source | |||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | sister's brother | 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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