Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 26

But Legless said, "O Tsar! let the Tsarivna speak the truth, and confess openly how she became so yellow!"

Who acts: Legless, Tsar, Tsarivna · What happens: say, let, speak, confess, become · To what, where: truth · 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, Tsar, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	Legless	Legless	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
6	O	o	INTJ	_	7 Tsar	discourse
7	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 let	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Tsar	punct
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Tsarivna	det
11	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 speak	nsubj
12	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 let	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 truth	det
14	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speak	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 confess	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 confess	cc
17	confess	confess	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 let	parataxis
18	openly	openly	ADV	_	21 became	advmod
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 became	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 became	nsubj
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 confess	advcl
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 yellow	advmod
23	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 became	xcomp
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	Legless			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive	Tsar			tree rules
3	speak speech: other in a quote	present	the Tsarivna	the truth		tree rules
4	confess in a quote	infinitive				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	become in a quote	past	Tsarivna		openly, yellow property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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