Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 174

What dost thou want here, Ivan?"--"I have come, sir, to beg of thee a place where I may build me a hut."--"A place for a hut, eh?

Who acts: thou, I, place · What happens: want, come, beg, build · To what, where: Ivan, hut, me

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 (thou, I, place), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 want	obj
2	dost	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 want	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Ivan	punct
7	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 want	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sir	punct
16	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	vocative
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beg	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 beg	mark
19	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 thee	case
21	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 beg	obl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 place	det
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beg	obj
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 build	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 build	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 build	aux
27	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 place	acl:relcl
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 build	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hut	det
30	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 build	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 place	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 place	punct
35	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 place	det
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	parataxis
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 hut	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 hut	det
39	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 place	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 eh	punct
41	eh	eh	INTJ	_	36 place	discourse
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	thou	Ivan		here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme ivan=Attribute
2	come	present · perfect	I				sir vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	a place				of thee	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
4	build	may	I	a hut	me			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary hut=Product

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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