Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 95

I will turn myself into a greyhound and catch the fox, then the young noblemen will want to buy me of thee, and thou must sell me to them for three hundred roubles--only, mind thou sell me without a chain; then we shall have lots of money at home, and will live happily together!"

Who acts: I, young noblemen, thou, we · What happens: turn, catch, want, buy, sell, mind · To what, where: myself, fox, me, thou, lots, home

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 (I, young noblemen, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 turn	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 greyhound	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 greyhound	det
7	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 catch	cc
9	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turn	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fox	det
11	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 catch	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 want	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 noblemen	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 noblemen	amod
16	noblemen	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 want	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 want	aux
18	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turn	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 buy	mark
20	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 want	xcomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 buy	iobj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 thee	case
23	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 buy	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sell	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sell	cc
26	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 sell	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 sell	aux
28	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turn	parataxis
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 sell	iobj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sell	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 roubles	case
33	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 hundred	compound
34	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 roubles	nummod
35	roubles	rouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sell	obl
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 mind	punct
37	only	only	ADV	_	39 mind	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 mind	punct
39	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turn	conj
40	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	39 mind	obj
41	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 mind	xcomp
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 sell	iobj
43	without	without	ADP	_	45 chain	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 chain	det
45	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sell	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 have	punct
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 have	advmod
48	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 have	nsubj
49	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 have	aux
50	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turn	parataxis
51	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 have	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 money	case
53	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 lots	nmod
54	at	at	ADP	_	55 home	case
55	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 have	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 live	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 live	cc
58	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 live	aux
59	live	live	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	50 have	parataxis
60	happily	happily	ADV	_	59 live	advmod
61	together	together	ADV	_	59 live	advmod
62	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 turn	punct
63	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	future	I	myself				into a greyhound result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent myself=Theme into greyhound=Result
2	catch	infinitive	I not said here	the fox					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme
3	want	future	the young noblemen				then		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	the young noblemen not said here		me			of thee	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	sell	must	thou		me			to noblemen = nobleman; for hundred roubles	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Theme to they=Recipient for rouble=Asset
6	mind	infinitive	I not said here	thou					tree rules
7	sell	infinitive	I not said here		me			without a chain	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
8	have	shall	we	lots of money		home	then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
9	live	future						happily, together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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