Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 188
But the horse added, "Come! weep not! after all 'tis not a task, but a trifle."
Who acts: horse · What happens: add, come · To what, where: horse, weep · 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 (horse), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 Come | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Come | nsubj |
| 4 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 horse | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Come | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Come | punct |
| 7 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 weep | punct |
| 9 | weep | weep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Come | obj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 weep | advmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 weep | punct |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 tis | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 tis | det |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 tis | punct |
| 15 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Come | obl |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 task | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 task | det |
| 18 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tis | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 trifle | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 trifle | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 trifle | det |
| 22 | trifle | trifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tis | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Come | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: express | participle | the horse not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | the horse | weep | after all tis a task but a trifle | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location weep=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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