Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 129

However caressing she may be, thou shalt not let her ears know the truth, for if thou _dost_ tell her the truth, both thou and I shall perish!"

Who acts: thou, wife, ears, I · What happens: caress, be, not let, know, do, tell · To what, where: wife, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, wife, ears, I), 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	However	however	ADV	_	2 caressing	advmod
2	caressing	caress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 let	advcl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 be	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 be	aux
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 caressing	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 caressing	punct
7	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 let	nsubj
8	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	10 let	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 let	advmod
10	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 let	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 truth	det
15	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 know	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dost	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 dost	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 dost	mark
19	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 dost	nsubj
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 thou	punct
21	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 know	parataxis
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 dost	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 truth	det
26	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thou	punct
28	both	both	CCONJ	_	29 thou	cc:preconj
29	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 know	ccomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 perish	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 perish	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 perish	aux
33	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 thou	conj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	caress	gerund	thou not said here			however property	tree rules
2	be	may	wife				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not let	shall	thou	wife			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	know	present	ears	the truth			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus
5	do a condition, not said to happen	present	thou				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert	infinitive	thou not said here	the truth	wife		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient truth=Topic
7	perish	shall	I				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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