Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 17

The lady was about to go with it when Legless said, "Nay, but let the Tsarivna give it to us with her own hands."

Who acts: lady, Legless, Tsarivna · What happens: be, go, say, let, give · To what, where: Tsarivna, money, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, Legless, Tsarivna), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 about	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	cop
4	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 about	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 said	advmod
10	Legless	Legless	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Nay	punct
14	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	11 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 let	cc
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 about	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Tsarivna	det
19	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 let	obj
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 us	case
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 give	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 hands	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hands	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hands	amod
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 give	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 about	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lady			about property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	the lady not said here			with money	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary
3	say speech: assert	past	Legless				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	let in a quote	infinitive	the lady not said here	the Tsarivna			tree rules
5	give in a quote	infinitive	the Tsarivna not said here	money	us	with Tsarivna's own hands	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to we=Recipient

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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