Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 150
And Tremsin entered the house of this nobleman and said, "Sir, may I not take service with thee as a labourer?"--The nobleman looked at him, and seeing that he was comely and stalwart, "Why not?
Who acts: Tremsin, nobleman · What happens: enter, say, not take, look, see, be · To what, where: house, Sir · 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 (Tremsin, nobleman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 entered | cc |
| 2 | Tremsin | Tremsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 nobleman | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 nobleman | det |
| 8 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sir | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sir | punct |
| 13 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 take | nsubj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 take | advmod |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 thee | case |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 take | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 labourer | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 labourer | det |
| 24 | labourer | labourer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 looked | punct |
| 28 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 nobleman | det |
| 29 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 looked | nsubj |
| 30 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 looked | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Why | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 Why | cc |
| 35 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 Why | csubj |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 comely | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 comely | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 comely | cop |
| 39 | comely | comely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 seeing | ccomp |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 stalwart | cc |
| 41 | stalwart | stalwart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 comely | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 seeing | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 Why | punct |
| 44 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 entered | parataxis |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 Why | advmod |
| 46 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Tremsin | the house of this nobleman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Tremsin not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not take in a quote | may | Tremsin | Sir | with thee; as a labourer | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent service=Theme as labourer=Attribute | |||
| 4 | look | past | the nobleman | at Sir | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | nobleman | comely property | 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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