Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 113

Thou must cut it down."--"Nay!" said he, "how can I cut down the fairest ornament of my garden?"--"Down it must come, and down it shall come!" replied the Tsarivna.

Who acts: Thou, Tsar, I, tree, Tsarivna · What happens: cut down, say, come, reply · To what, where: tree, fairest ornament · 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, Tsar, I, tree), 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	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 cut	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	aux
3	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 cut	compound:prt
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 Nay	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Nay	punct
10	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	13 said	discourse
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 Nay	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Nay	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	advcl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 cut	advmod
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 cut	aux
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 cut	nsubj
20	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 cut	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ornament	det
23	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 ornament	amod
24	ornament	ornament	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cut	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 garden	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 garden	nmod:poss
27	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ornament	nmod
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 come	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 come	punct
32	Down	down	ADP	_	35 come	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 come	nsubj
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 come	aux
35	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cut	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 come	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 come	cc
38	down	down	ADP	_	41 come	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 come	nsubj
40	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 come	aux
41	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cut	conj
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct
44	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	parataxis
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Tsarivna	det
46	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 replied	nsubj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cut down	must	Thou	tree	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Tsar		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cut down	can	I	the fairest ornament of my garden	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ornament=Product
4	come	must	tree		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	shall	tree		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	reply speech: assert in a quote	past	the Tsarivna		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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