Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 130

Come, sell it," said he, "with the halter."--"No, thou gipsy, I have a liking for that halter."--"But, my good man, when didst thou ever see them sell a horse without a halter?

Who acts: thou, I, man · What happens: come, sell, say, gipsy, have, do · To what, where: way, liking, man, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

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, I, man), 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	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sell	punct
3	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Come	conj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sell	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 halter	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 he	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 halter	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 halter	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 halter	det
13	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 halter	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 halter	punct
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 gipsy	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 gipsy	punct
18	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	21 gipsy	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gipsy	punct
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 gipsy	nsubj
21	gipsy	gipsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gipsy	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 liking	det
26	liking	liking	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 halter	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 halter	det
29	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 liking	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 gipsy	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 gipsy	punct
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 man	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 man	punct
34	But	but	CCONJ	_	38 man	cc
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 man	punct
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 man	nmod:poss
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 man	amod
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 didst	punct
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 didst	advmod
41	didst	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 man	acl:relcl
42	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	44 see	nsubj
43	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	44 see	advmod
44	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 didst	ccomp
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 see	obj
46	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 see	xcomp
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 horse	det
48	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sell	obj
49	without	without	ADP	_	51 halter	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 halter	det
51	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sell	obl
52	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sell	infinitive		way			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	gipsy		thou				tree rules
5	have	present	I	a liking		for that halter	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liking=Patient
6	do	past					tree rules
7	see	infinitive	thou	man	ever		tree rules
8	sell	infinitive	man not said here	a horse		without a halter	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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