Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 40
Then the Serpent said to him, "Weep no more.
Who acts: Serpent · What happens: say, weep · To what, where: heart, more · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Serpent), 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 | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Serpent | det |
| 3 | Serpent | Serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Weep | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Weep | punct |
| 9 | Weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 Weep | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Serpent | heart | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | weep in a quote | infinitive | the Serpent not said here | more | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=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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