Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 122

But he told nobody what he thought, nor did he say a word about it to his second wife. "

Who acts: husband · What happens: tell, think, say · To what, where: nobody, word, second 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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 told	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 told	obj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 thought	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nobody	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 say	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 word	det
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	obj
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 word	nmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 wife	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
19	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 wife	amod
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	husband		nobody		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient
2	think speech: other	past	husband				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past · do-support	husband	a word	husband's second wife	about word	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to wife=Recipient

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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