Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 130

And she said to the Empress, "Let me watch by him for this apple but one night more, and I'll never ask again!"

Who acts: Empress · What happens: say, let, watch, not ask · To what, where: Empress · 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 (Empress), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Empress	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Empress	det
6	Empress	Empress	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Let	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Let	punct
9	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Let	obj
11	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Let	xcomp
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 watch	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 apple	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 apple	det
16	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 watch	obl
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 more	cc
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 night	nummod
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 more	obl:unmarked
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 apple	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ask	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ask	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 ask	nsubj
24	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 ask	aux
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 ask	advmod
26	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Let	conj
27	again	again	ADV	_	26 ask	advmod
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 Let	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	Empress		the Empress			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to empress=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive		Empress				tree rules
3	watch in a quote	infinitive	Empress not said here				by husband; for this apple	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location for apple=Theme
4	not ask speech: ask in a quote	future	Empress			again		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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