Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 59
Go and offer thyself to him, and thou shalt marry his daughter, but tell her not the truth for seven years!"
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: go, offer, marry, not tell · To what, where: thyself, horse, daughter, truth, lady · 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 (you, thou), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 offer | cc |
| 3 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 4 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 3 offer | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 offer | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 marry | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 marry | cc |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 marry | nsubj |
| 10 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 marry | aux |
| 11 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marry | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 tell | cc |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 tell | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 truth | det |
| 20 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 years | case |
| 22 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 tell | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | offer | infinitive | you not said here | thyself | horse | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent thyself=Theme to he=Goal | |||
| 3 | marry | shall | thou | horse's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | the truth | lady | year | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient truth=Topic |
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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