Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 194
Well," said the horse, "this time 'tis no trifle, but a real hard task.
What happens: say · To what, where: horse · 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: 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 12 | tis | tis | ADP | _ | 14 trifle | case |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 trifle | det |
| 14 | trifle | trifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 task | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 task | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 task | det |
| 18 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 task | amod |
| 19 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 task | amod |
| 20 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the horse | time | a real hard task obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |
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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