Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 127
Methought thou wouldst tear me in pieces with thy dogs.
Who acts: Methought · What happens: tear · To what, where: me, pieces
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 (Methought), 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 | Methought | Methought | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tear | nsubj |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 tear | nsubj |
| 3 | wouldst | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 tear | aux |
| 4 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tear | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pieces | case |
| 7 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tear | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 dogs | case |
| 9 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pieces | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | would | Methought | me | pieces with thy dogs | tree rules |
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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