Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 81
Now her husband had laid this command upon her, "Go and divert thyself if thou wilt, but if thou tell my father and my mother what has happened to me, and how I have lost my twenty serpent skins, thou shalt never see me more."
Who acts: thou, mother, last wife · What happens: lay, go, divert, tell, happen, lose · To what, where: husband, thyself, father, last wife, twenty serpent skins · 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 (thou, mother, last wife), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 laid | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 husband | nmod:poss |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laid | aux |
| 5 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 command | det |
| 7 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laid | obj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 laid | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Go | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Go | punct |
| 12 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 laid | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 divert | cc |
| 14 | divert | divert | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 Go | conj |
| 15 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 14 divert | obj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 wilt | mark |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 wilt | nsubj |
| 18 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 divert | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tell | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 tell | cc |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 tell | mark |
| 22 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 tell | nsubj |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Go | parataxis |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tell | iobj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 happened | cc |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 happened | nsubj |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 happened | nsubj |
| 30 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 happened | aux |
| 31 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 tell | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 me | case |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 happened | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 lost | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 lost | cc |
| 36 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 lost | advmod |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 lost | nsubj |
| 38 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 lost | aux |
| 39 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 happened | advcl |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 skins | nmod:poss |
| 41 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 skins | nummod |
| 42 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 skins | compound |
| 43 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 lost | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 see | punct |
| 45 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 48 see | nsubj |
| 46 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 48 see | aux |
| 47 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 48 see | advmod |
| 48 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tell | conj |
| 49 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 see | obj |
| 50 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 48 see | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laid | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past · perfect · passive | bride's husband | now | upon bride | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | divert in a quote | infinitive | thyself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thyself=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | thou | my father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | happen in a quote | present · perfect | my mother | the last wife = wife | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lose in a quote | present · perfect | the last wife = wife | my twenty serpent skins | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | not see in a quote | shall | thou | the last wife = wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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