Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 170
Then the youth said to her, "I know where thy clothes are, but I will not give them to thee unless thou wilt be my wife."--"Good!" cried she, "thy wife will I be."
Who acts: youth, clothes, thou, wife · What happens: say, know, be, not give, cry · To what, where: gift, clothes, wife, youth · 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 (youth, clothes, thou, wife), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 are | advmod |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 are | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 give | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 give | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 give | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 give | advmod |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 know | parataxis |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 thee | case |
| 23 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 give | obl |
| 24 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 29 wife | mark |
| 25 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 wife | nsubj |
| 26 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 29 wife | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 wife | cop |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 wife | nmod:poss |
| 29 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 cried | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Good | punct |
| 34 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 cried | parataxis |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 Good | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Good | punct |
| 37 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 cried | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 be | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 be | punct |
| 41 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 42 wife | nmod:poss |
| 42 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 be | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 be | aux |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 be | nsubj |
| 45 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 cried | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the youth | gift | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | the youth = youth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | does in a quote | present | thy clothes | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not give in a quote | future | the youth = youth | clothes | to thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to thou=Recipient | |||
| 5 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | thou | my wife | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | past | the youth not said here | youth | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be in a quote | future | thy wife | vn exist-47.1 «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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