Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 78

Thou must not sit upon her back, but I will trounce her finely."

Who acts: Thou, I · What happens: not sit, trounce · To what, where: back, Tis

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, 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	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 sit	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sit	advmod
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trounce	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 trounce	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 trounce	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 trounce	aux
12	trounce	trounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 trounce	obj
14	finely	finely	ADV	_	12 trounce	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sit	must	Thou			Tis's back			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon back=Location
2	trounce	future	I	Tis				finely property	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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