Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 131
Tis no good; we shall never do for him," said the serpent. "
Who acts: we, Tis · What happens: not do, say · To what, where: serpent · 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 (we, Tis), 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 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 good | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tis | amod |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 do | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tis | parataxis |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 serpent | det |
| 15 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | shall | we | for tis | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Tis | the serpent | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent serpent=Topic |
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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