Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 92
What a long time I've been asleep!" cried he.--"'Tis a good thing for thee that we got the living and healing water!" said Protius.--"But what shall we do next?" said they all.
Who acts: I, Tsar, Tis, we, Protius · What happens: be, cry, thing, get, heal, say · To what, where: long time, living · 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 (I, Tsar, Tis, we), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 time | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 asleep | nsubj |
| 6 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asleep | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 asleep | cop |
| 8 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 asleep | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 asleep | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 thing | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 thing | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 Tis | punct |
| 17 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 thing | nsubj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 thing | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thing | amod |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 thee | case |
| 22 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 thing | nmod |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 got | mark |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 got | nsubj |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 said | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 living | det |
| 27 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 water | cc |
| 29 | healing | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 water | amod |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 living | conj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 got | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 got | punct |
| 33 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 34 | Protius | Protius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 said | nsubj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 do | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 But | punct |
| 38 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 do | cc |
| 39 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 42 do | obj |
| 40 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 do | aux |
| 41 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 do | nsubj |
| 42 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 43 | next | next | ADV | _ | 42 do | advmod |
| 44 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 42 do | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 do | punct |
| 46 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | conj |
| 47 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 all | nsubj |
| 48 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 said | ccomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | I | what long time not said here | asleep property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Tsar | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | thing | Tis | for thee | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get | past | we | the living and healing water | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer living=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | heal | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Protius | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | do | shall | we | next property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Tsar not said here | 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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