Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 90

Moreover, from my youth upward I have never learnt my letters; how shall I begin to do so now?

Who acts: I, my · What happens: not learn, begin, do, letter · To what, where: letters, youth

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, my), 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	Moreover	moreover	ADV	_	10 learnt	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Moreover	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 youth	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 youth	nmod:poss
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 learnt	obl
6	upward	upward	ADV	_	5 youth	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 learnt	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 learnt	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 learnt	advmod
10	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 letters	nmod:poss
12	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 learnt	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 begin	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 begin	advmod
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 begin	aux
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 begin	nsubj
17	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 learnt	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begin	xcomp
20	so	so	ADV	_	19 do	advmod
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 do	advmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 learnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	present · perfect	I	my letters	my youth		moreover property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent letter=Topic from youth=Source
2	begin	shall	I					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	do	to-infinitive	I not said here			now		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	letter		my					nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=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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