Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 19

But he said to her, "Be not angry, but tell me, now, wherefore art thou so yellow?"

Who acts: Legless · What happens: say, not be, tell · To what, where: Tsarivna, Legless · 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 (Legless), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 angry	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 angry	punct
8	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 angry	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 angry	advmod
10	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 tell	cc
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 now	punct
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 tell	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 art	punct
18	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	19 art	advmod
19	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	parataxis
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 art	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 yellow	advmod
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 art	xcomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Legless	Tsarivna			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not is in a quote	infinitive				angry property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		Legless	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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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