Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 112

She did not tell her son the whole truth, that the bride was in search of her husband, but he knew it already, and said, "Her husband is about to marry another wife.

Who acts: mother, bride, husband · What happens: not tell, be, know, say, marry · To what, where: whole truth, son, search, truth, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, bride, husband), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 truth	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 truth	amod
9	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 search	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 search	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bride	det
13	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 search	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 search	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 search	case
16	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 husband	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 husband	nmod:poss
19	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 search	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knew	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 knew	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knew	nsubj
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knew	obj
25	already	already	ADV	_	23 knew	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 knew	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 about	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 about	punct
31	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 husband	nmod:poss
32	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 about	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 about	cop
34	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 said	ccomp
35	to	to	PART	_	36 marry	mark
36	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 about	xcomp
37	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	38 wife	det
38	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 marry	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	mother	the whole truth	mother's son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent son=Recipient truth=Topic
2	is	past	the bride			search	of mother's husband	tree rules
3	know	past	husband	truth				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	husband not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	mother's husband				about property	tree rules
6	marry in a quote	to-infinitive	mother's husband not said here	another wife				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient

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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