Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 4

Then the elder brother took a knife and stuck it into the trunk of a maple-tree by the roadside, and said, "Look now, brother, should any blood drip from the blade of this knife it will be a sign that I am perishing, and thou must go and seek me; but if any blood flow from the handle, it will be a sign that _thou_ art perishing, and I will then go and seek thee."

Who acts: elder brother, knife, thou, blood flow · What happens: take, stick, say, look, be, perish · To what, where: knife, trunk, sign, elder brother, thee · 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 (elder brother, knife, thou, blood flow), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brother	det
3	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knife	det
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stuck	cc
9	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stuck	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 trunk	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trunk	det
13	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuck	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 tree	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
16	maple	maple	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tree	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 maple	punct
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trunk	nmod
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 roadside	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 roadside	det
21	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuck	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Look	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Look	punct
27	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 Look	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 brother	punct
30	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Look	vocative
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 drip	punct
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 drip	aux
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 drip	det
34	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 drip	compound
35	drip	drip	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Look	parataxis
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 blade	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 blade	det
38	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 drip	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 knife	case
40	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 knife	det
41	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 blade	nmod
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 sign	nsubj
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 sign	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 sign	cop
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 sign	det
46	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 knife	acl:relcl
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 perishing	mark
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 perishing	nsubj
49	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 perishing	aux
50	perishing	perish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 sign	acl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 go	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 go	cc
53	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	55 go	nsubj
54	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 go	aux
55	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 seek	cc
57	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 go	conj
58	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 seek	obj
59	;	;	PUNCT	_	73 sign	punct
60	but	but	CCONJ	_	73 sign	cc
61	if	if	SCONJ	_	73 sign	mark
62	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	64 flow	det
63	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 flow	compound
64	flow	flow	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 sign	nsubj
65	from	from	ADP	_	67 handle	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 handle	det
67	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 flow	nmod
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 flow	punct
69	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 sign	nsubj
70	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	73 sign	aux
71	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	73 sign	cop
72	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	73 sign	det
73	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	parataxis
74	that	that	SCONJ	_	78 art	mark
75	_	_	PUNCT	_	74 that	punct
76	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	78 art	nsubj
77	_	_	PUNCT	_	76 thou	punct
78	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	73 sign	acl
79	perishing	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	78 art	xcomp
80	,	,	PUNCT	_	85 go	punct
81	and	and	CCONJ	_	85 go	cc
82	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	85 go	nsubj
83	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	85 go	aux
84	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	85 go	advmod
85	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	78 art	parataxis
86	and	and	CCONJ	_	87 seek	cc
87	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	85 go	conj
88	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	87 seek	obj
89	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
90	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the elder brother	a knife		then		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent knife=Theme clause=Attribute
2	stick	past	the elder brother not said here	knife	the trunk of a maple tree		by the roadside	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into trunk=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	the elder brother not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look in a quote	infinitive				now	brother vocative	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	is a in a quote	future	knife	a sign				tree rules
6	perish in a quote	present · progressive	the elder brother = brother	a sign not said here				tree rules
7	go in a quote	must	thou					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	seek in a quote	infinitive	thou not said here	the elder brother = brother				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
9	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	any blood flow from the handle	a sign				tree rules
10	perish in a quote	gerund	any blood flow from the handle not said here					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
11	go in a quote	future	the elder brother = brother			then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	seek in a quote	infinitive	the elder brother = brother not said here	thee				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme

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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