Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 185
The nobleman praised Tremsin exceedingly, but the thrice-lovely Nastasia said, "Look now! since thou hast found the feather of the Bird Zhar, and the Bird Zhar herself, since also thou hast found me, thou must now fetch me also my little coral necklace from the sea!"
Who acts: nobleman, lovely Nastasia, thou · What happens: praise, say, look, find, fetch · To what, where: Tremsin, feather, lovely Nastasia · 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 (nobleman, lovely Nastasia, thou), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nobleman | det |
| 2 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 praised | nsubj |
| 3 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Tremsin | Tremsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 praised | obj |
| 5 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 3 praised | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Nastasia | det |
| 9 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lovely | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 thrice | punct |
| 11 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Nastasia | amod |
| 12 | Nastasia | Nastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 praised | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Look | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Look | punct |
| 16 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 Look | advmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 Look | punct |
| 19 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 22 found | mark |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 found | nsubj |
| 21 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 found | aux |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 Look | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 feather | det |
| 24 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Zhar | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Zhar | det |
| 27 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Zhar | compound |
| 28 | Zhar | Zhar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 feather | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 herself | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 herself | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Zhar | det |
| 32 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Zhar | compound |
| 33 | Zhar | Zhar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 herself | nsubj |
| 34 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 praised | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 found | punct |
| 36 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 40 found | mark |
| 37 | also | also | ADV | _ | 40 found | advmod |
| 38 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 found | nsubj |
| 39 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 found | aux |
| 40 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 praised | parataxis |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 found | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 fetch | punct |
| 43 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 46 fetch | nsubj |
| 44 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 fetch | aux |
| 45 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 fetch | advmod |
| 46 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 praised | parataxis |
| 47 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 fetch | obj |
| 48 | also | also | ADV | _ | 52 necklace | advmod |
| 49 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 necklace | nmod:poss |
| 50 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 necklace | amod |
| 51 | coral | coral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 necklace | amod |
| 52 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fetch | obl |
| 53 | from | from | ADP | _ | 55 sea | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 sea | det |
| 55 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 necklace | nmod |
| 56 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 46 fetch | punct |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 fetch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past | the nobleman | Tremsin | NASTASIA obl; exceedingly property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent tremsin=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the lovely Nastasia | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | now | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | present · perfect | thou | the feather of the Bird Zhar | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Topic | ||||
| 5 | find in a quote | present · perfect | thou | the lovely Nastasia = nastasia | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic | ||||
| 6 | fetch in a quote | must | thou | the lovely Nastasia = nastasia | now | my little coral necklace from the sea obl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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