Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 20

Thou dost see that he has grown up and yet is of no use to us, and he is so foolish that we can do nothing with him.

Who acts: Thou, last, we · What happens: do, see, grow up, be · To what, where: us, nothing · 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, last, 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	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 dost	nsubj
2	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dost	xcomp
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 grown	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 grown	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grown	aux
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 see	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 grown	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 use	cc
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 use	advmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 use	cop
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 use	case
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 use	det
14	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dost	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 us	case
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 use	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 foolish	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 foolish	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 foolish	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 foolish	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 foolish	advmod
22	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dost	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 do	mark
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 do	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 do	aux
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 foolish	advcl
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 do	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 do	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Thou					tree rules
2	see	infinitive	Thou not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	grow up	present · perfect	last					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	Thou not said here		us	yet	of no use	tree rules
5	is	present	last				foolish property	tree rules
6	do	can	we	nothing			with last	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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