Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 8
Then he will send thee to bring in his sheaves, and I'll help thee.
Who acts: corn, I · What happens: send, bring, help · To what, where: thee, sheaves
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 (corn, I), 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 send | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 send | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | aux |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 send | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bring | mark |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 send | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sheaves | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sheaves | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sheaves | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bring | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 help | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 help | nsubj |
| 14 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | aux |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 send | conj |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | future | corn | thee | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | corn not said here | corn's sheaves | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | help | future | I | thee | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary |
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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