Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 168
My master has given me a task that cannot be done."--"What task is that?"--"Why, to fetch him the thrice-lovely Nastasia of the sea!"--"Oh-ho!" laughed the horse, "that is not a task, but a trifle.
Who acts: task, ho, that · What happens: give, not do, be, fetch, laugh, not be · To what, where: master, me, task, that, lovely Nastasia, nobleman · 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 (task, ho, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 master | nmod:poss |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 given | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 task | det |
| 7 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 that | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 done | obj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 done | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 done | aux:pass |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 task | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 that | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 that | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 that | obj |
| 18 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 that | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 that | cop |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 given | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 Why | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Why | punct |
| 25 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 given | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fetch | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 fetch | mark |
| 28 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 laughed | ccomp |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fetch | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Nastasia | det |
| 31 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 lovely | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 thrice | punct |
| 33 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Nastasia | amod |
| 34 | Nastasia | Nastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 fetch | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 sea | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 sea | det |
| 37 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Nastasia | nmod |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 fetch | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 fetch | punct |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 44 ho | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 ho | punct |
| 42 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 44 ho | discourse |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 Oh | punct |
| 44 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 laughed | nsubj |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 44 ho | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 ho | punct |
| 47 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Why | advcl:relcl |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 horse | det |
| 49 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 laughed | obj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 laughed | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 laughed | punct |
| 52 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 56 task | nsubj |
| 53 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 task | cop |
| 54 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 56 task | advmod |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 task | det |
| 56 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 laughed | parataxis |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 trifle | punct |
| 58 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 60 trifle | cc |
| 59 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 60 trifle | det |
| 60 | trifle | trifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 task | conj |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect · passive | My master | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not do | can · passive | a task | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a task | that | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fetch | to-infinitive | ho not said here | the lovely Nastasia of the sea | nobleman | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary nastasia=Theme | |||
| 5 | laugh in a quote | past | ho | the horse | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not is a | present | that | a task but a trifle | 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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