Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 65
So when the brother came home from hunting the serpent hid himself, but the sister said, "I have dreamed a dream, dear brother.
Who acts: brother, sister · What happens: come, hunt, hide, say, dream · To what, where: serpent, dream · 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 (brother, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 hid | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hid | advcl |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 8 hunting | mark |
| 8 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 serpent | det |
| 10 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunting | obj |
| 11 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 hid | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sister | det |
| 16 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hid | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dreamed | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 dreamed | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 dreamed | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 dreamed | aux |
| 22 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 said | ccomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dream | det |
| 24 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dreamed | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 brother | punct |
| 26 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 brother | amod |
| 27 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dream | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the brother | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | the brother not said here | the serpent | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | serpent | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | dream in a quote | present · perfect | the sister = sister | a dream and dear brother | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=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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