Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 52

Will you let me pass the night here, good people?" said he; "only take care that the Iron Wolf does not get hold of me!"--"Have no fear!" said they, "we have a dog called Bary, who can hear a wolf coming twelve miles off.

Who acts: you, me, dog, Iron Wolf, people, we · What happens: let, pass, say, take, not get, have · To what, where: me, good people, care, hold, fear, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, dog, Iron Wolf), 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	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pass	obj
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 pass	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 people	punct
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pass	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 take	advmod
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
20	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 get	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Wolf	det
23	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Wolf	compound
24	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 get	nsubj
25	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 get	advmod
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 take	advcl
28	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 hold	nmod
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 Have	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 Have	punct
35	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 take	conj
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 fear	det
37	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Have	obj
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
40	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 said	nsubj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 have	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 have	punct
44	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 have	nsubj
45	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 said	conj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 dog	det
47	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 have	obj
48	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 dog	acl
49	Bary	Bary	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 called	xcomp
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 hear	punct
51	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 hear	nsubj
52	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 hear	aux
53	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 dog	parataxis
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 wolf	det
55	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 hear	obj
56	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	55 wolf	acl
57	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 miles	nummod
58	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 off	obl:unmarked
59	off	off	ADV	_	56 coming	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	future	you	me				tree rules
2	pass	infinitive	me not said here	good people	here	night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	dog					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take	infinitive		care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	not get	present · do-support	the Iron Wolf	hold of me				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
6	have	present		no fear				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient
7	say speech: assert in a quote	past	people					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	have	present	we	a dog				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
9	call speech: assert	participle		a dog not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	hear	can	a dog	a wolf				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus
11	come	gerund	a wolf not said here				off property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	hold			me				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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