Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Old Dog, sentence 13

Brave old dog!" said he; "you are old and toothless, and yet you can give help in time of need, and will not let your master's child be stolen."

Who acts: wolf, you, child · What happens: say, be, give, not let, steal · To what, where: help, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Old Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, you, child), 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	Brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brave	conj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Brave	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Brave	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 old	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 old	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 old	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 old	cop
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 toothless	cc
14	toothless	toothless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 old	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 give	cc
17	yet	yet	ADV	_	20 give	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 give	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 give	aux
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 old	conj
21	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 time	case
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 need	case
25	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 time	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 let	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 let	cc
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 let	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 let	advmod
30	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 master	nmod:poss
32	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 child	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 master	case
34	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 let	obj
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 stolen	aux:pass
36	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 let	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 let	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	wolf				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	you			old property	tree rules
3	be		you not said here				tree rules
4	give	can	you	help	yet; time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme
5	not let	future		your master's child			tree rules
6	steal	infinitive · passive	your master's child not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»

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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