Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 90
Twere better I had never been born!"--But St Michael said to him, "Weep not, 'twill all end happily.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: not bear, say, not weep, end · To what, where: better, St, twill · 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 (Michael), 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 | Twere | twere | ADV | _ | 2 better | advmod |
| 2 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 born | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 born | aux:pass |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 born | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 born | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Michael | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Weep | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Weep | punct |
| 19 | Weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 Weep | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 twill | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 twill | punct |
| 23 | twill | twill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Weep | obl |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 end | advmod |
| 25 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Weep | advcl |
| 26 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 25 end | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear | past · perfect · passive | better | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Michael St | St | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not weep | infinitive | Michael St not said here | twill | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | end | present | Michael St not said here | happily property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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