Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 162

And he asked him, saying, "Tell me, now, which is the best gift to ask of God: a tsardom, or great riches, or a good wife?"--And the third brother said, "What a question!

Who acts: brother, third brother · What happens: ask, say, tell, be · To what, where: tsardom, three, brother, best gift · 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 (brother, third brother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 asked	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 asked	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct
9	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saying	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Tell	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 Tell	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gift	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 gift	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 gift	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gift	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 gift	amod
18	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Tell	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 ask	mark
20	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 gift	acl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 God	case
22	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 ask	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 tsardom	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tsardom	det
25	tsardom	tsardom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 riches	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 riches	cc
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 riches	amod
29	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 tsardom	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wife	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 wife	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 wife	det
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wife	amod
34	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tsardom	appos
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 wife	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 wife	punct
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct
38	And	and	CCONJ	_	42 said	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 brother	det
40	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	41 brother	amod
41	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 said	nsubj
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 What	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 What	punct
45	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	42 said	ccomp
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 question	det
47	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 What	nsubj
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	brother	a tsardom or great riches	three			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	say speech: ask	gerund	brother not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			brother	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	is a in a quote	present		the best gift				tree rules
5	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive					of God	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of god=Recipient
6	say speech: assert	past	the third brother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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