Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 118
Shall we find him reading prayers, or shall we only find his bones?" said they.
Who acts: we, bones · What happens: find, read, say · To what, where: _, prayers, bones · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, bones), 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 said | ccomp |
| 6 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reading | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 find | advmod |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reading | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bones | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 find | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | ccomp |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | shall | we | _ | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | read | gerund | prayers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find | shall | we | _'s bones | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Topic | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | bones = bone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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