Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 33

When they have killed me, ask thy stepmother to give thee my entrails to wash, and in them thou wilt find a grain of corn.

Who acts: you, thou · What happens: kill, ask, give, wash, find · To what, where: man, stepmother, entrails, thee, grain

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 killed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 killed	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 killed	aux
4	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ask	advcl
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 killed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 killed	punct
7	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 stepmother	nmod:poss
9	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ask	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 give	mark
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ask	xcomp
12	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 give	iobj
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 entrails	nmod:poss
14	entrails	entrail	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 give	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 wash	mark
16	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 give	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 find	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 find	obl
21	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 find	nsubj
22	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	23 find	aux
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ask	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 grain	det
25	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 corn	case
27	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grain	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	kill	present · perfect · passive		man			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result
2	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		thy stepmother		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent stepmother=Recipient clause=Topic
3	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	my entrails	thee		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient entrail=Theme
4	wash	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	find	future	thou	a grain of corn		in man	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=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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