Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 141
I'll do whatever thou tellest me, only leave off beating me."--"Then I have taught thee sense, eh?" said the man.--"Oh, yes, yes, good husband!" cried she.
Who acts: I, thou, man, good husband · What happens: do, tell, leave off, beat, teach, say · To what, where: whatever, me, I, wife · 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 (I, thou, man, good husband), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 tellest | nsubj |
| 6 | tellest | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 tellest | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 leave | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 leave | advmod |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 do | parataxis |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 leave | compound:prt |
| 12 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 leave | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 beating | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 taught | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 taught | punct |
| 18 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 taught | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 taught | aux |
| 21 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 said | ccomp |
| 22 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 taught | obj |
| 23 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taught | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 eh | punct |
| 25 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 28 said | discourse |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 eh | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 eh | punct |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 man | det |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 said | nsubj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 husband | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 husband | punct |
| 34 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 40 good | discourse |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Oh | punct |
| 36 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 34 Oh | discourse |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Oh | punct |
| 38 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 34 Oh | discourse |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Oh | punct |
| 40 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 husband | amod |
| 41 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 cried | nsubj |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 41 husband | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 husband | punct |
| 44 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 said | conj |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 cried | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | I | whatever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | thou | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | leave off | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | beat | gerund | me | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme | |||||
| 5 | teach speech: other | present · perfect · passive | I | then | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | good husband | wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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