Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 105

Thou must kill it on the spot."--"Nay, dear little heart! how can I do such a thing?" said the Tsar.--"Slay it thou must, and slay it thou shalt!" cried the Tsarivna.

Who acts: Thou, I, Tsar · What happens: kill, do, say, slay, cry · To what, where: court, spot, thing, Tsarivna · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, I, Tsar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 kill	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 kill	aux
3	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 cried	parataxis
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kill	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 spot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spot	det
7	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kill	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kill	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 kill	punct
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 heart	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 heart	punct
12	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	16 heart	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Nay	punct
14	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 heart	amod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 heart	amod
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kill	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 kill	punct
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 do	advmod
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 do	aux
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 do	nsubj
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kill	parataxis
22	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	24 thing	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 thing	det
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 do	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 kill	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 kill	punct
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kill	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Tsar	det
29	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kill	punct
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 Slay	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Slay	punct
33	Slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 kill	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 Slay	obj
35	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	36 must	nsubj
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 Slay	ccomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 slay	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 slay	cc
39	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 kill	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 slay	obj
41	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	42 shalt	nsubj
42	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	39 slay	ccomp
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 kill	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 kill	punct
45	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Tsarivna	det
47	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 cried	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kill	must	Thou	court	the spot	dear little heart obl	tree rules
2	do	can	I	such thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Tsar				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	slay	infinitive	Thou not said here	court			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	slay	infinitive	Thou not said here	court			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	cry speech: express in a quote	past		the Tsarivna			tree rules

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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