Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 100

Is that thy greyhound?"--"It is."--"'Tis a good dog; wilt sell it to us?"--"Bid for it!"--"What dost thou require?"--"Three hundred roubles without a chain."--"What do we want with _thy_ chain, we would give him a chain of gold.

Who acts: thou, we · What happens: be, sell, bid, require, want, give · To what, where: greyhound, Tis, us, chain, dog

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, we), 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 greyhound	cop
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 greyhound	det
3	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 greyhound	nmod:poss
4	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Tis	advcl
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 greyhound	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 greyhound	punct
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
9	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 is	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Tis	cop
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 Tis	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Tis	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 Tis	punct
16	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dog	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dog	amod
19	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Tis	appos
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 sell	punct
21	wilt	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sell	aux
22	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 Tis	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sell	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 us	case
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 sell	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 sell	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 sell	punct
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 Bid	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Bid	punct
30	Bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 sell	parataxis
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 Bid	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 Bid	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 sell	punct
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 require	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 require	punct
37	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	40 require	obj
38	dost	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 require	aux
39	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	40 require	nsubj
40	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sell	parataxis
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 sell	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 sell	punct
43	--	--	PUNCT	_	47 roubles	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 roubles	punct
45	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 hundred	compound
46	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 roubles	nummod
47	roubles	rouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sell	obl
48	without	without	ADP	_	50 chain	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 chain	det
50	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sell	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 sell	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 sell	punct
53	--	--	PUNCT	_	58 want	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	58 want	punct
55	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	58 want	obj
56	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 want	aux
57	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 want	nsubj
58	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sell	conj
59	with	with	ADP	_	63 chain	case
60	_	_	PUNCT	_	59 with	punct
61	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	63 chain	nmod:poss
62	_	_	PUNCT	_	63 chain	punct
63	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 want	obl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 give	punct
65	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	67 give	nsubj
66	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 give	aux
67	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sell	conj
68	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 give	iobj
69	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	70 chain	det
70	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 give	obj
71	of	of	ADP	_	72 gold	case
72	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 chain	nmod
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 Tis	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		thy greyhound			tree rules
2	is a	present		Tis			tree rules
3	sell	future		greyhound	us	without a chain; hundred roubles obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to we=Recipient
4	bid	infinitive				for greyhound	tree rules
5	require	present · do-support	thou				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Precondition
6	want	present · do-support	we			with thy chain	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
7	give	would	we	a chain of gold	dog		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient chain=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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