Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 68

Then the prince said, "Did I not tell you? and was I to put myself to shame by touching a bow that one of my servants can draw?"

Who acts: prince, one · What happens: say, not tell, be, shame, touch, draw · To what, where: you, bow · 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 (prince, one), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
7	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 tell	advmod
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 put	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 put	cop
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 put	nsubj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 put	mark
17	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
18	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 put	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 shame	mark
20	shame	shame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 put	advcl
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	22 touching	mark
22	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 shame	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bow	det
24	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 touching	obj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 draw	mark
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 draw	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 servants	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 servants	nmod:poss
29	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 one	nmod
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 draw	aux
31	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 touching	advcl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the prince			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	the prince = prince		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is in a quote	past	the prince = prince				put property	tree rules
4	shame in a quote	to-infinitive	the prince = prince not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	touch in a quote	gerund	the prince = prince not said here	a bow				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bow=Co-Theme
6	draw in a quote	can	one of my servants					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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