Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 15
Dost hear?"--"I dare not," said the priest, "I have no will in the matter."--"I command thee, fellow!"--"I dare not, O Tsar!"--"Well," said the Tsar, "I'll give thee three days to think about it, and on the evening of the fourth day appear before me, and I'll strike thy head from thy shoulders if thou dost not obey me!"
Who acts: I, Tsar, thou · What happens: hear, not dare, say, have, command, give · To what, where: priest, matter, thee, head, shoulders, 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 (I, Tsar, 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 | Dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hear | aux |
| 2 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 hear | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hear | punct |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 dare | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 dare | nsubj |
| 8 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 dare | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dare | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 dare | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hear | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 priest | det |
| 14 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 matter | det |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 matter | aux |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 matter | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 matter | det |
| 23 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 command | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 command | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 command | nsubj |
| 29 | command | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 30 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 command | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fellow | punct |
| 32 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 command | obl |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 fellow | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 fellow | punct |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 dare | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 dare | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 dare | nsubj |
| 38 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 command | conj |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 dare | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Tsar | punct |
| 41 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 42 Tsar | discourse |
| 42 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 dare | parataxis |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 42 Tsar | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 Tsar | punct |
| 45 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 50 said | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 Well | punct |
| 47 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 50 said | discourse |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Well | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 Well | punct |
| 50 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 dare | parataxis |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Tsar | det |
| 52 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 said | nsubj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 give | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 57 give | punct |
| 55 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 57 give | nsubj |
| 56 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 57 give | aux |
| 57 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 said | ccomp |
| 58 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 57 give | iobj |
| 59 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 60 days | nummod |
| 60 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 give | obj |
| 61 | to | to | PART | _ | 62 think | mark |
| 62 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 57 give | advcl |
| 63 | about | about | ADP | _ | 64 it | case |
| 64 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 think | obl |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 74 appear | punct |
| 66 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 74 appear | cc |
| 67 | on | on | ADP | _ | 69 evening | case |
| 68 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 69 evening | det |
| 69 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 74 appear | obl |
| 70 | of | of | ADP | _ | 73 day | case |
| 71 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 73 day | det |
| 72 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 73 day | amod |
| 73 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 evening | nmod |
| 74 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 dare | parataxis |
| 75 | before | before | ADP | _ | 76 me | case |
| 76 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 74 appear | obl |
| 77 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 81 strike | punct |
| 78 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 81 strike | cc |
| 79 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 81 strike | nsubj |
| 80 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 81 strike | aux |
| 81 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 74 appear | conj |
| 82 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 83 head | nmod:poss |
| 83 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 81 strike | obj |
| 84 | from | from | ADP | _ | 86 shoulders | case |
| 85 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 86 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 86 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 81 strike | obl |
| 87 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 91 obey | mark |
| 88 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 91 obey | nsubj |
| 89 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 91 obey | aux |
| 90 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 91 obey | advmod |
| 91 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 81 strike | advcl |
| 92 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 91 obey | obj |
| 93 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 81 strike | punct |
| 94 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · do-support | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | not dare | present | I | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the priest | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | present | I | no matter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Patient | ||||
| 5 | command | present | I | thee | fellow obl | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | not dare | present | I | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Tsar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | give | future | I | thee | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 9 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | about matter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | ||||
| 10 | appear | present | before me; evening | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Location | |||||
| 11 | strike | future | I | thy head | thy shoulders | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 12 | not obey a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | thou | me | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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