Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 56
Then the eldest uncle said to the lad, "Listen, good simpleton!
Who acts: eldest uncle · What happens: say, listen · To what, where: lad, good simpleton · 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 (eldest uncle), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 uncle | det |
| 3 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 uncle | amod |
| 4 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 lad | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lad | det |
| 8 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Listen | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Listen | punct |
| 11 | Listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 simpleton | punct |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 simpleton | amod |
| 14 | simpleton | simpleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Listen | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the eldest uncle | the lad | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lad=Recipient | |||
| 2 | listen in a quote | infinitive | the eldest uncle not said here | good simpleton | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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