Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 50

"Well, dear father," said he, "had I only as much power as will, I would cut down the middle oak, lay it across the other two, and hang up every prince and every noble in the wide world."

Who acts: dear father, father · What happens: say, have, cut down, lay, hang up · To what, where: dear father, middle oak, power, other two, prince, wide world · 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 (dear father, father), 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	_	5 father	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 father	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 father	amod
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 he	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 had	obj
14	only	only	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 power	amod
17	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 will	mark
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 had	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cut	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 cut	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 cut	aux
23	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 cut	compound:prt
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 oak	det
26	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 oak	compound
27	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cut	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lay	punct
29	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 cut	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lay	obj
31	across	across	ADP	_	34 two	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 two	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 two	amod
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 lay	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hang	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hang	cc
37	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 cut	conj
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 hang	compound:prt
39	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	40 prince	det
40	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hang	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 noble	cc
42	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	43 noble	det
43	noble	noble	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 prince	conj
44	in	in	ADP	_	47 world	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 world	det
46	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 world	amod
47	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hang	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 cut	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	dear father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	past	father	dear father = father		tree rules
3	cut down in a quote	would	dear father = father	the middle oak		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Product
4	lay in a quote	infinitive	dear father = father not said here	power	the other two	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result
5	hang up in a quote	infinitive	dear father = father not said here	every prince and every noble	the wide world	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme in world=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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