Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 172

Just be so good as to sit down on that chair, and I'll show and tell thee everything."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, sit down, show, tell · To what, where: chair, everything, thee · 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, I), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	4 good	advmod
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 good	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 good	advmod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 sit	mark
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sit	mark
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 good	csubj
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 sit	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 chair	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 chair	det
11	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 show	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 show	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 show	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 show	aux
16	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 good	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tell	cc
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 show	conj
19	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 tell	iobj
20	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 tell	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here				good property	tree rules
2	sit down	to-infinitive				that chair		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location
3	show	future	I					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here	everything	thee			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient everything=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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