Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 115

Why didst thou not listen to me when I told thee not to go into the tavern, eh?"--"What tavern dost thou mean?" asked the man proudly; "as for the sack and the ram thou didst give me, they only did me a mischief; give me something else."--"What's the use of giving thee anything?" said the Wind; "thou wilt only take it to the tavern.

Who acts: thou, I, sack, use, Wind · What happens: not listen, tell, not go, tavern, do, mean · To what, where: me, thee, tavern, man, sack, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. 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, sack, use), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 listen	advmod
2	didst	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 listen	aux
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 listen	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 listen	advmod
5	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 dost	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 listen	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 told	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 listen	advcl
11	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 told	iobj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 go	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	xcomp
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 tavern	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tavern	det
17	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 listen	punct
19	eh	eh	INTJ	_	5 listen	discourse
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 listen	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 listen	punct
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 tavern	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 tavern	punct
24	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 tavern	nsubj
25	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dost	obl
26	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 mean	nsubj
28	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 dost	xcomp
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 mean	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 mean	punct
31	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 mean	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 asked	obj
34	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	31 asked	advmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 sack	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 sack	punct
37	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	40 sack	case
38	for	for	ADP	_	37 as	fixed
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sack	det
40	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dost	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 ram	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 ram	det
43	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sack	conj
44	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	45 didst	nsubj
45	didst	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 sack	acl:relcl
46	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 didst	ccomp
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 give	iobj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 did	punct
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 did	nsubj
50	only	only	ADV	_	51 did	advmod
51	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 give	parataxis
52	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 did	obj
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 mischief	det
54	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 did	obj
55	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 give	punct
56	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 dost	conj
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 give	iobj
58	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	56 give	obj
59	else	else	ADV	_	58 something	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	58 something	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	56 give	punct
62	--	--	PUNCT	_	67 use	punct
63	"	"	PUNCT	_	67 use	punct
64	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	67 use	nsubj
65	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 use	cop
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 use	det
67	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 give	obj
68	of	of	SCONJ	_	69 giving	mark
69	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	67 use	acl
70	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	69 giving	iobj
71	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	69 giving	obj
72	?	?	PUNCT	_	67 use	punct
73	"	"	PUNCT	_	67 use	punct
74	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 give	advcl
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 Wind	det
76	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 said	nsubj
77	;	;	PUNCT	_	82 take	punct
78	"	"	PUNCT	_	82 take	punct
79	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	82 take	nsubj
80	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	82 take	aux
81	only	only	ADV	_	82 take	advmod
82	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 dost	conj
83	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	82 take	obj
84	to	to	ADP	_	86 tavern	case
85	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	86 tavern	det
86	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 take	obl
87	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 dost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not listen	past · do-support	thou		me			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	I		thee			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not go not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			the tavern		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into tavern=Initial_Location
4	tavern							tree rules
5	do	present					as the sack and the ram	tree rules
6	mean	infinitive	thou					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	thou not said here		the man		proudly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
8	do	past	thou	the sack and the ram not said here				tree rules
9	give	infinitive	thou not said here		me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
10	do	past	sack	me				tree rules
11	give	infinitive		something	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme
12	is a	present		the use				tree rules
13	give	gerund	the use not said here	anything	thee			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient anything=Theme
14	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Wind					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
15	take	future	thou	use		the tavern		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to tavern=Destination

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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