Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 82

Nay, but tell me, darling," quoth she, "wherein doth thy strength lie?"

Who acts: you, thy · What happens: tell, quoth, do, lie · To what, where: darling, me, wife, 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 (you, 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	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	4 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 darling	punct
7	darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 quoth	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 quoth	punct
10	quoth	quoth	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	conj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 quoth	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 doth	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 doth	punct
14	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	15 doth	advmod
15	doth	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 quoth	conj
16	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 lie	nmod:poss
17	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lie	compound
18	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 doth	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	darling	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	quoth in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	wife			tree rules
3	do	present	you not said here	thy strength lie		wherein property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Eventuality
4	lie		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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