Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 91
But to the little bear she said, "Obey him as though he were thine own father."
Who acts: bear, Hail · What happens: say, obey, be · To what, where: little bear, Hail, own father · 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 (bear, Hail), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 bear | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bear | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bear | amod |
| 5 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Obey | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Obey | punct |
| 10 | Obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 Obey | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 Obey | advmod |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 father | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 father | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 father | cop |
| 16 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 father | amod |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Obey | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Obey | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Obey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | bear | the little bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bear=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | obey in a quote | infinitive | Hail | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | Hail | thine own father | tree rules |
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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