Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 147

Pick it up, my children," said the man, "and thou too, wife, take what thou wilt!"--And they didn't wait to be asked twice.

Who acts: you, children · What happens: pick up, say, take, not wait, ask · To what, where: floor, man · 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 (you, children), 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	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 children	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 children	nmod:poss
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pick	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thou	cc
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 said	conj
16	too	too	ADV	_	9 said	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wife	punct
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pick	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
20	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	conj
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 take	obj
22	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 wilt	nsubj
23	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 wait	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	31 wait	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wait	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 wait	aux
30	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 wait	advmod
31	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pick	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	34 asked	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 asked	aux:pass
34	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 wait	advcl
35	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 asked	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Pick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	floor	my children obl; wife obl	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	you not said here	the man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
3	take	infinitive	you not said here			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
4	not wait in a quote	past · do-support	children = child			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	children = child not said here		twice property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»

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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