Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 84
I saw thee go and search and fetch me from somewhere bear's milk, and I drank of it, and my health came back to me."--"I will fetch it," said her brother.
Who acts: I, thee, health, brother · What happens: see, go, search, fetch, drink, come back · To what, where: thee, me, milk · 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 (I, thee, health, brother), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 search | cc |
| 6 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fetch | cc |
| 8 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 search | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 fetch | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 somewhere | case |
| 11 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 fetch | obl |
| 12 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 milk | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 bear | case |
| 14 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 somewhere | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drank | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drank | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 drank | nsubj |
| 18 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drank | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 health | nmod:poss |
| 24 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 said | advcl |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 came | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 fetch | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 fetch | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 fetch | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 fetch | aux |
| 35 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 came | parataxis |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 fetch | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fetch | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 fetch | punct |
| 39 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 brother | nmod:poss |
| 41 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 said | nsubj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | thee not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | search | infinitive | thee not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fetch | infinitive | thee not said here | me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from somewhere=Source | ||||
| 5 | drink | past | I | of milk | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source | ||||
| 6 | come back | past | my health | me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | fetch | future | I | milk | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | health's brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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