Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 107

I'll tell thee what to do so that thy children shall never send thee to school again.

Who acts: I, children · What happens: tell, do, not send · To what, where: thee, school · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, children), 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 tell	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 tell	iobj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	ccomp
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 send	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 children	nmod:poss
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 send	nsubj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 send	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 send	advmod
14	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	advcl
15	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 send	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 school	case
17	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 send	obl
18	again	again	ADV	_	14 send	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I		thee			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	not send	shall	thy children	thee		school	again	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme to school=Destination

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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