Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 15

God help thee, old father!" cried he.--"Good health to thee, good man!" said the ancient giant, as he lay on the floor of the hut.

Who acts: God, old father, Good health, man · What happens: help, cry, say, lie · To what, where: thee, ancient giant, floor · 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 (God, old father, Good health, man), 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	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 help	nsubj
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 help	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 father	amod
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 help	parataxis
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 help	punct
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 health	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 health	punct
14	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 health	amod
15	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 thee	case
17	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 health	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 help	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 giant	det
25	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 giant	amod
26	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 lay	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 lay	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 lay	nsubj
30	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 said	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 floor	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 floor	det
33	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lay	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 hut	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hut	det
36	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 floor	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	help	present	God	thee		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	cry speech: express in a quote	past	old father			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Good health to thee	the ancient giant		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic
4	lie in a quote	past	man		the floor of the hut	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location

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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