Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 176

Go home, and I'll speak to my overseer, and he shall appoint thee a place."--So he returned from the nobleman's castle, and his wife said to him, "Go now into the forest and cut down an oak, a young oak, that thou canst span round with both arms."

Who acts: you, I, man, wife, that · What happens: go, speak, appoint, return, say, cut down · To what, where: thee, castle, man, forest, oak · 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, I, man, 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	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 speak	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 speak	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 speak	nsubj
6	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 speak	aux
7	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 overseer	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 overseer	nmod:poss
10	overseer	overseer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 speak	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 appoint	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 appoint	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 appoint	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 appoint	aux
15	appoint	appoint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	conj
16	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 appoint	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 place	det
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 appoint	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 returned	punct
22	So	so	ADV	_	24 returned	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 returned	nsubj
24	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	parataxis
25	from	from	ADP	_	29 castle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 nobleman	det
27	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 castle	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 nobleman	case
29	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 returned	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 wife	nmod:poss
33	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 said	nsubj
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 returned	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 said	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Go	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 Go	punct
39	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	34 said	ccomp
40	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 Go	advmod
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 forest	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 forest	det
43	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Go	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 cut	cc
45	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 Go	conj
46	down	down	ADP	_	45 cut	compound:prt
47	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 oak	det
48	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cut	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 oak	punct
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 oak	det
51	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 oak	amod
52	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 oak	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 span	punct
54	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	57 span	nsubj
55	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	57 span	nsubj
56	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	57 span	aux
57	span	span	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 Go	parataxis
58	round	round	ADV	_	57 span	advmod
59	with	with	ADP	_	61 arms	case
60	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	61 arms	det
61	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 span	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
63	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					home property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other	future	I					to my overseer	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to overseer=Co-Agent
3	appoint	shall	man	thee					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme place=Attribute
4	return in a quote	past	man			the nobleman's castle			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from castle=Initial_Location
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	man's wife		man				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
6	go	infinitive				the forest	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
7	cut down	participle		a oak and a young oak					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oak=Product
8	span round	can	that					with both arms; round property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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