Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 29
Why, what's the meaning of this?" thought he.
Who acts: meaning · What happens: be, think · To what, where: meaning, corn
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meaning), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 thought | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 meaning | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 meaning | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 meaning | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 meaning | det |
| 6 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 meaning | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 meaning | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 meaning | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the meaning | of this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | the meaning | corn | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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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