Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 67

Dost _thou_ know her?"--But the Tsarevich said, "Whoever will tell me who this great lady is, to him will I give a sack-load of gold ducats!"--Then they inquired and inquired, and laid all their heads together, but nothing came of it.

Who acts: thou, Tsarevich, Whoever, great lady, I, ducats · What happens: do, know, say, tell, be, give · To what, where: Lady, me, sack load, Tsarevich, heads · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (thou, Tsarevich, Whoever, great lady), 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	Dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	1 Dost	punct
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 know	nsubj
4	_	_	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dost	parataxis
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 know	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dost	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Dost	punct
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
10	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Tsarevich	det
12	Tsarevich	Tsarevich	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Dost	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
16	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 tell	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	18 tell	ccomp
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 lady	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lady	amod
23	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 who	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 who	cop
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 give	punct
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 give	obl
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 give	aux
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 give	nsubj
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tell	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 load	det
32	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 load	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 sack	punct
34	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 ducats	case
36	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ducats	compound
37	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 load	nmod
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 give	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 inquired	punct
41	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 inquired	advmod
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 inquired	nsubj
43	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 inquired	cc
45	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 inquired	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 laid	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 laid	cc
48	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 heads	det:predet
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 heads	nmod:poss
51	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 laid	obj
52	together	together	ADV	_	48 laid	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 came	punct
54	but	but	CCONJ	_	56 came	cc
55	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	56 came	nsubj
56	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 it	case
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 came	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Dost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	present						tree rules
2	know		thou	Lady				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Tsarevich					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	future	Whoever		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	is a	present	this great lady					tree rules
6	give	future	I	a sack load of gold ducats	Tsarevich			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent load=Theme to he=Recipient
7	inquire speech: other in a quote	past	ducats = ducat			then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	inquire speech: other in a quote	past	ducats = ducat not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	lay in a quote	past	the Tsarevich not said here	ducats's heads			together property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Result
10	come in a quote	past	nothing				of head	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location

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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