Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 112

"Good!" said the serpent, "but I will not let thee have my daughter till thou hast done all my tasks.

Who acts: serpent, thee, thou, my · What happens: say, not let, have, do, task · To what, where: thee, daughter, tasks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, 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 (serpent, thee, thou, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 serpent	det
7	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 let	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 let	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 let	advmod
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
15	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 let	obj
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 daughter	nmod:poss
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 hast	mark
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 hast	nsubj
21	hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 let	advcl
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 let	parataxis
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 tasks	det:predet
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 tasks	nmod:poss
25	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 done	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the serpent		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not let in a quote	future	the serpent = serpent	thee	tree rules
3	have in a quote	infinitive	thee not said here	my daughter	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
4	have in a quote	present	thou		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	do in a quote	participle		my tasks	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
6	task in a quote		my		nom task «act 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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