Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 77
Lie down, and make thyself out worse than ever, and ask bear's milk of him, for the bears will tear him to pieces without doubt."
Who acts: you, bears · What happens: lie down, make out, ask, tear · To what, where: thyself, milk, serpent
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, bears), 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 | Lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Lie | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 make | cc |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lie | parataxis |
| 6 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 make | compound:prt |
| 8 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 make | xcomp |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 ever | case |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 worse | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ask | cc |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lie | parataxis |
| 14 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 milk | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 bear | case |
| 16 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ask | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 milk | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tear | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 tear | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bears | det |
| 22 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tear | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 tear | aux |
| 24 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ask | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 tear | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 pieces | case |
| 27 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tear | obl |
| 28 | without | without | ADP | _ | 29 doubt | case |
| 29 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tear | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lie | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | imperative | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make out | infinitive | thyself | bad property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thyself=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | bear's milk of serpent | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | tear | future | the bears | serpent | to pieces result; without doubt | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to piece=Result |
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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