Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 6

To say such words to me!" thought he, "words that I can never forget, though I grow grey-headed."

Who acts: priest, I · What happens: say, think, word, not forget, grow, head · To what, where: such words, me, words · 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 (priest, 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	To	to	PART	_	2 say	mark
2	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thought	advcl
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 say	obl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 words	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 words	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 words	punct
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thought	ccomp
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 forget	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 forget	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 forget	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 forget	advmod
18	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 words	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grow	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 grow	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 grow	nsubj
22	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	parataxis
23	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 headed	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 grey	punct
25	headed	head	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 grow	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		such words	me	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to i=Recipient
2	think speech: other in a quote	past				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	word		priest			tree rules
4	not forget	can	I	words		tree rules
5	grow	present	I			tree rules
6	head	participle	I not said here			vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: 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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