Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 102
Then she immediately recognized her ring, and said to her father, "This man is my husband who delivered me from death, but that fellow"--pointing to the lackey--"that rascally slavish soul killed my husband and made me say that he was my husband."
Who acts: young, man, husband, slavish soul, soul · What happens: recognize, say, be, deliver, point, kill · To what, where: ring, father, husband, young, death, lackey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young, man, husband, slavish soul), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 recognized | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 recognized | nsubj |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 recognized | advmod |
| 4 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ring | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recognized | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recognized | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 father | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 husband | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 husband | punct |
| 15 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 husband | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 husband | cop |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 husband | nmod:poss |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 father | appos |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 delivered | nsubj |
| 21 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 husband | acl:relcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 delivered | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 death | case |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 delivered | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fellow | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 fellow | cc |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 fellow | det |
| 28 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recognized | parataxis |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 fellow | punct |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 pointing | punct |
| 31 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 recognized | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 lackey | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lackey | det |
| 34 | lackey | lackey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pointing | obl |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 killed | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 killed | punct |
| 37 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 soul | det |
| 38 | rascally | rascally | ADV | _ | 39 slavish | advmod |
| 39 | slavish | slavish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 soul | amod |
| 40 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 killed | nsubj |
| 41 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recognized | conj |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 husband | nmod:poss |
| 43 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 killed | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 made | cc |
| 45 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 killed | conj |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 made | obj |
| 47 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 made | xcomp |
| 48 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 52 husband | mark |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 husband | nsubj |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 husband | cop |
| 51 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 husband | nmod:poss |
| 52 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 say | ccomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recognized | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 recognized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | past | young | young's ring | then | immediately property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | young not said here | young's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this man | my husband | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | deliver in a quote | past | my husband | young | death | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from death=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | point | gerund | young not said here | the lackey | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lackey=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | kill in a quote | past | that slavish soul | my husband | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | ||||
| 7 | make in a quote | past | that slavish soul not said here | young | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | young not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | is a in a quote | past | soul | my husband | 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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