Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 157

Tell me, which of the three is the best gift to ask for?"--And his eldest brother said to him, "I know not, and who does know?

Who acts: you, eldest brother, I · What happens: tell, be, ask, say, not know, know · To what, where: me, tsardom · 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, eldest brother, 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gift	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 gift	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	11 gift	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gift	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 gift	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gift	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gift	det
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 gift	amod
11	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 ask	mark
13	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 gift	acl
14	for	for	ADP	_	13 ask	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 brother	nmod:poss
20	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 brother	amod
21	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 know	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 know	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 know	nsubj
28	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 know	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 know	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 know	cc
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 know	nsubj
33	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 know	aux
34	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	conj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is	present			of the best gift	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	tsardom's eldest brother	tsardom		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	not know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	know	present · do-support				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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