Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 37
Look into my right ear," said the bullock, "draw out the little handkerchief thou findest there, and throw it in front of me."
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: look, say, draw out, find, throw · To what, where: right ear, bullock, little handkerchief, handkerchief, front · 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 (you, thou), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 ear | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ear | nmod:poss |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ear | amod |
| 5 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bullock | det |
| 10 | bullock | bullock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 draw | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 draw | punct |
| 13 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 draw | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 handkerchief | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 handkerchief | amod |
| 17 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 draw | obj |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 findest | nsubj |
| 19 | findest | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 handkerchief | acl:relcl |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 findest | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 throw | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 throw | cc |
| 23 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 throw | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 front | case |
| 26 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 throw | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 front | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | my right ear | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the bullock | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bullock=Topic | |||||
| 3 | draw out | infinitive | the little handkerchief | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | present | thou | the little handkerchief not said here | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Topic | |||
| 5 | throw | infinitive | you not said here | handkerchief | front of me | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in front=Destination |
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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