Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 182

Then his wife asked him all about it, and said, "Well, I can tell thee all about the ways of the sun, for I am the sun's own daughter.

Who acts: wife, I · What happens: ask, say, tell, be · To what, where: overseer, thee · 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 (wife, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 asked	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	iobj
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 it	advmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
14	Well	well	INTJ	_	18 tell	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Well	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
19	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 tell	iobj
20	all	all	ADV	_	23 ways	advmod
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 ways	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ways	det
23	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tell	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 sun	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sun	det
26	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ways	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 daughter	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	35 daughter	case
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 daughter	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 daughter	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sun	det
32	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 daughter	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 sun	case
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 daughter	amod
35	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	overseer's wife	overseer	then	about long	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about it=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	I	thee		about the ways of the sun	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient about way=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	I			for the sun's own daughter	tree rules

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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