Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 54

Perish!" cried he, "for 'tis but just that such a wretch as thou shouldst perish!"

Who acts: Perish, that, thou · What happens: cry, wretch, perish · To what, where: wretch

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 (Perish, that, thou), 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	Perish	Perish	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cried	nsubj
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Perish	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Perish	punct
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tis	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 tis	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 tis	case
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 tis	punct
10	tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obl
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 wretch	cc
12	just	just	ADV	_	16 wretch	advmod
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 wretch	nsubj
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 wretch	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wretch	det
16	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tis	conj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 perish	mark
18	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 perish	nsubj
19	shouldst	should	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	20 perish	aux
20	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wretch	acl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 wretch	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 wretch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Perish		for tis but such wretch	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for tis=Recipient
2	wretch		that			tree rules
3	perish	should	thou	such wretch not said here		tree rules

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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