Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 78

Go where thou wilt, old man," said they, "only don't come to us."

Who acts: you, old man, houses · What happens: go, say, not come · To what, where: us · 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 (you, old man, houses), 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	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 wilt	advmod
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 wilt	nsubj
4	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	parataxis
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 they	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
14	only	only	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
15	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 come	advmod
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 us	case
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 come	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	old man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not come	infinitive · do-support	houses = house	us	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location

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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