Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 143

So when the pike came up to it, it said, "Perch! perch! turn thy head toward me, I want to have a chat with thee!"--"I can hear thee very well as I am, dear cousin, if thou art inclined to chat," said the perch.

Who acts: pike, perch · What happens: come up, say, turn, want, have, hear · To what, where: perch, head, chat, thee, dear cousin, thou · 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 (pike, perch), 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	So	so	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pike	det
4	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 turn	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 perch	punct
14	Perch	perch	INTJ	_	16 perch	discourse
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 Perch	punct
16	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turn	nsubj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 perch	punct
18	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 said	ccomp
19	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turn	obj
21	toward	toward	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 turn	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 want	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 want	nsubj
25	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 turn	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 have	mark
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 want	xcomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 chat	det
29	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 thee	case
31	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 have	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 want	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 want	punct
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 hear	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 hear	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 hear	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 hear	aux
38	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 turn	conj
39	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	38 hear	obj
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 well	advmod
41	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 cousin	advmod
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 am	mark
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 am	nsubj
44	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 cousin	cop
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 am	punct
46	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 cousin	amod
47	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hear	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 inclined	punct
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 inclined	mark
50	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	52 inclined	nsubj:pass
51	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 inclined	aux:pass
52	inclined	incline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 said	ccomp
53	to	to	PART	_	54 chat	mark
54	chat	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 inclined	xcomp
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 inclined	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 inclined	punct
57	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 perch	det
59	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 said	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	57 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the pike		perch		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	pike				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	turn in a quote	infinitive	perch	thy head		toward the perch = perch	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme toward i=Trajectory
4	want in a quote	present	the perch = perch				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	have not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the perch = perch not said here	a chat		with thee	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Patient
6	hear in a quote	can	the perch = perch	thee			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus
7	is a in a quote	present		dear cousin		well property	tree rules
8	incline a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · passive		thou			tree rules
9	chat speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive					vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	say speech: express	past	the perch				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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