Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 7
Turn back home," it said, "and thou wilt find thy master angry because thou hast tarried so long, and there was none to work for him, so that his corn has to remain standing in the field.
Who acts: you, labourer, thou, none, corn · What happens: turn back, say, find, tarry, be, work · To what, where: master, thou, field · 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 (you, labourer, thou, none), 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 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Turn | advmod |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 1 Turn | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Turn | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 find | cc |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 find | xcomp |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 tarried | mark |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 tarried | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 tarried | aux |
| 20 | tarried | tarry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 find | ccomp |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 long | advmod |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 tarried | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 was | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 was | cc |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Turn | parataxis |
| 27 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 26 was | nsubj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 work | mark |
| 29 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 none | acl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 work | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 has | punct |
| 33 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 37 has | mark |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 so | fixed |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 corn | nmod:poss |
| 36 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 has | nsubj |
| 37 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Turn | parataxis |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 remain | mark |
| 39 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 has | xcomp |
| 40 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 remain | xcomp |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 field | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 field | det |
| 43 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 standing | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | imperative | you not said here | home property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | labourer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | future | thou | thy master | angry property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent master=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 4 | tarry | present · perfect · passive | thou | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | past | none | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | work | to-infinitive | none not said here | for Serpent | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | have | present | Serpent's corn | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | remain | to-infinitive | Serpent's corn not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | stand | gerund | Serpent's corn not said here | the field | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location |
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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