Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 128
Then he asked her again, "Art thou ill?"--"Nay, dear dad," said she. "
Who acts: help, Tsar · What happens: ask, say · To what, where: Tsar · 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 (help, Tsar), 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 | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 asked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Art | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Art | punct |
| 8 | Art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 ill | nsubj |
| 10 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Art | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 ill | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ill | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 dad | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dad | punct |
| 15 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 18 dad | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dad | punct |
| 17 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dad | amod |
| 18 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | vocative |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | help | Tsar | then; again | dear dad vocative | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tsar | 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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