Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 78

But his wife caressed and wheedled him again, and said, "Nay, but tell me, wherein doth thy strength lie?"--"My strength, darling," said he, "lies in my boots."

Who acts: wife, thy · What happens: caress, wheedle, say, tell, do, lie · To what, where: Daniel, me, strength lie · 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 (wife, thy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 caressed	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caressed	nsubj
4	caressed	caress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wheedled	cc
6	wheedled	wheedle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caressed	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wheedled	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 wheedled	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caressed	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
14	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	17 tell	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 tell	cc
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 doth	punct
20	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	21 doth	advmod
21	doth	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	advcl
22	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 lie	nmod:poss
23	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lie	compound
24	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 doth	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 strength	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 strength	punct
29	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 strength	nmod:poss
30	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 darling	punct
32	darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 strength	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 said	ccomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 he	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 lies	punct
39	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 he	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 boots	case
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 boots	nmod:poss
42	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 lies	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 caressed	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 caressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	caress	past	Daniel's wife					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	wheedle	past	Daniel's wife not said here	Daniel		again		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	say speech: ask	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	do in a quote	present		thy strength lie			wherein property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	lie in a quote		thy					nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=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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