Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 9

How durst thou read such and such passages to me?" said the Tsar.--"They were written to be read," replied the priest.--"Written, indeed!

Who acts: thou, Tsar · What happens: read, say, write, reply · To what, where: such passages, me, passages, priest · 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 (thou, Tsar), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 durst	advmod
2	durst	durst	ADV	_	4 read	advmod
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 read	nsubj
4	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	advcl
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 passages	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 such	cc
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 such	conj
8	passages	passage	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 read	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Tsar	det
15	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 written	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 written	punct
19	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 written	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 written	aux:pass
21	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	24 read	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 read	aux:pass
24	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 replied	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 read	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 replied	punct
27	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 written	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 priest	det
29	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 replied	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 written	punct
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 Written	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Written	punct
33	Written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 indeed	punct
35	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	33 Written	advmod
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	read	past	thou	such passages	me	durst property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent passage=Topic to i=Recipient
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Tsar				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	write	past · passive		passages = passage			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	read	to-infinitive · passive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»
5	reply speech: assert in a quote	past		the priest			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent priest=Topic
6	write	participle	the Tsar not said here			indeed property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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