Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 12

Thy wise brethren have watched to no purpose, what canst thou do?"--"Hoity-toity!" said the fool; "give me a gun, and I'll go all the same."

Who acts: thou, Hoity toity, I · What happens: watch, do, say, give, go · To what, where: wise brethren, fool, gun, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, Hoity toity, I), 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	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 brethren	nmod:poss
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brethren	amod
3	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 watched	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 watched	aux
5	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 purpose	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 purpose	det
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watched	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 do	obj
11	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 watched	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 toity	punct
18	Hoity	hoity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 toity	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 toity	punct
20	toity	toity	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 toity	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 toity	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 watched	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fool	det
25	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 give	iobj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 gun	det
31	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 go	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 go	nsubj
35	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 go	aux
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 watched	conj
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 same	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 same	det
39	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 go	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	watch	present · perfect · passive		Thy wise brethren		to no purpose	tree rules
2	do	can	thou				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Hoity toity	the fool			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fool=Topic
4	give	infinitive	Hoity toity not said here	a gun	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient gun=Theme
5	go	future	I			same property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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