Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 146

Then the perch stuck out its bristly fins again and said, "If thou dost wish to have a chat, dear cousin, I can hear thee just as well as I am."

Who acts: perch, thou · What happens: stick out, say, do, have, hear · To what, where: bristly fins, wish, chat, thee · 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 (perch, thou), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stuck	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 perch	det
3	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	nsubj
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 stuck	compound:prt
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fins	nmod:poss
7	bristly	bristly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fins	amod
8	fins	fin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stuck	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	4 stuck	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hear	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 hear	punct
14	If	if	SCONJ	_	16 dost	mark
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 dost	nsubj
16	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 hear	advcl
17	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dost	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 have	mark
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 dost	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 chat	det
21	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cousin	punct
23	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cousin	amod
24	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chat	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dost	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 hear	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 hear	aux
28	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
29	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 hear	obj
30	just	just	ADV	_	32 well	advmod
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 well	advmod
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 hear	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 am	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 am	nsubj
35	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 well	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 hear	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stick out	participle	the perch	chat's bristly fins	then; again		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fin=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the perch not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	thou	wish			tree rules
4	have in a quote	to-infinitive	thou not said here	a chat			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Patient
5	hear in a quote	can	the perch = perch	thee		well property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus

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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