Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 83

Then said he, "What! did you not say you would bring out a _horse_?

Who acts: prince, you · What happens: say, do, not say, bring out · To what, where: you, horse · 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, you), 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	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 What	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 What	punct
6	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 said	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 did	obj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 say	advmod
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 did	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 bring	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 bring	aux
14	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 say	ccomp
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 bring	compound:prt
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 horse	det
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 horse	punct
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bring	obj
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	prince		then	tree rules
2	do in a quote	past		you		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality
3	not say speech: assert in a quote	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bring out in a quote	would	you	a horse		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=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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