Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 11

Smear those places over with grease, and never dare to read them again, I say!"--"'Tis not I who have written those words, your Majesty," said the priest; "nor is it for such as I to smear them over."--"What! thou dost presume to teach me?

Who acts: you, I · What happens: smear over, not dare, not read, say, write, be · To what, where: places, Tis, priest, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	Smear	smear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 places	det
3	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Smear	obj
4	over	over	ADV	_	1 Smear	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 grease	case
6	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Smear	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dare	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dare	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 dare	advmod
10	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Smear	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 read	mark
12	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dare	xcomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 read	obj
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 read	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dare	parataxis
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 written	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Tis	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 Tis	punct
23	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 written	nsubj:pass
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 I	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 Tis	conj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 written	nsubj:pass
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 written	aux
28	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 said	ccomp
29	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 words	det
30	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 written	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Majesty	punct
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 Majesty	nmod:poss
33	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 words	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 written	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 written	punct
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dare	parataxis
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 priest	det
38	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 said	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 is	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 is	punct
41	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	42 is	cc
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 smear	cop
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 is	expl
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 such	case
45	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 is	obl
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 smear	mark
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 smear	nsubj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 smear	mark
49	smear	smear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Smear	conj
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 smear	obj
51	over	over	ADP	_	49 smear	compound:prt
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Smear	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Smear	punct
54	--	--	PUNCT	_	60 presume	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	60 presume	punct
56	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	59 dost	obj
57	!	!	PUNCT	_	59 dost	punct
58	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	59 dost	nsubj
59	dost	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 presume	aux
60	presume	presume	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Smear	conj
61	to	to	PART	_	62 teach	mark
62	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 presume	xcomp
63	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 teach	obj
64	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Smear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	smear over	imperative	you not said here	that places			with grease; over property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent place=Destination with grease=Theme
2	not dare	infinitive						vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not read	to-infinitive		places = place		again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	say speech: assert	present	I					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	write	present · perfect · passive		Tis				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient word=Topic
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the priest				tree rules
7	is	present	I				smear property	tree rules
8	presume	present · do-support	you not said here					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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