Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 91

Now, did I not bid thee tell not thy wife the truth for seven years?" said she, "and thou wouldst not take heed."

Who acts: I, wife, thou · What happens: not bid, not tell, say, not take · To what, where: thee, truth, wife, heed · 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 (I, wife, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 bid	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bid	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bid	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 bid	advmod
6	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
7	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 bid	obj
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bid	conj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 tell	advmod
10	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 truth	det
13	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tell	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bid	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 bid	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 she	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 take	cc
24	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 take	nsubj
25	wouldst	would	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	27 take	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 take	advmod
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	conj
28	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	not bid	past · do-support	I	thee		now	tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here	the truth	thy wife	year	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient truth=Topic
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not take	would	thou	heed			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme

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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