Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 22
The rich man snarled at her and departed, but when he got home he said to the ikon, "A pretty surety _thou_ art!"
Who acts: rich man, man · What happens: snarl, depart, get, say · To what, where: rich man, ikon · 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 (rich man, man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 departed | nsubj |
| 4 | snarled | snarl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 snarled | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 snarled | cc |
| 8 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 got | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | advcl |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 got | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 departed | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 ikon | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ikon | det |
| 19 | ikon | ikon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 surety | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 surety | punct |
| 22 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 surety | det |
| 23 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 surety | amod |
| 24 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ikon | conj |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 thou | punct |
| 26 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 said | ccomp |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 art | punct |
| 28 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 art | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 art | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snarl | participle | the rich man not said here | at wife | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | depart | past | the rich man | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | past | man | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | man | the ikon and a pretty surety | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ikon=Recipient |
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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