Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 99
But his sister burst into tears and said, "Why dost thou keep such monstrous dogs?
Who acts: sister · What happens: burst, say, do, keep · To what, where: tears, thou, such monstrous dogs · 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 burst | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burst | nsubj |
| 4 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 tears | case |
| 6 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 burst | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 burst | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dost | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 dost | punct |
| 11 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 dost | advmod |
| 12 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 dost | obj |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dost | xcomp |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dogs | amod |
| 16 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dogs | amod |
| 17 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 keep | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | Tsar's sister | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Tsar's sister not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | infinitive | such monstrous dogs | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
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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