Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 134

"Nay, but I must go," said he.

Who acts: serpent · What happens: go, say · 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 (serpent), 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	_	7 go	punct
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	7 go	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 go	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	must	serpent						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	serpent						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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