Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 148
And as he fell he cried, "Oh, accursed one! did I not charge thee not to confess!
Who acts: trunk · What happens: fall, cry, accurs, not charge, not confess · To what, where: one, thee · 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 (trunk), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cried | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 fell | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | advcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 accursed | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 accursed | punct |
| 9 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 11 accursed | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Oh | punct |
| 11 | accursed | accurs | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | conj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 accursed | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 charge | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 charge | nsubj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 charge | advmod |
| 17 | charge | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | conj |
| 18 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 charge | iobj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 confess | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 confess | mark |
| 21 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 charge | advcl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | trunk | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | trunk | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | accurs in a quote | past | trunk not said here | one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not charge in a quote | past · do-support | trunk | thee | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location thou=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not confess in a quote | to-infinitive | trunk not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=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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