Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 65

Thou didst give me something at the tavern," cried he; "and now I may call in vain.

Who acts: Thou, I · What happens: do, give, cry, call · To what, where: something, me, tavern, man, vain · 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), 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	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 didst	nsubj
2	didst	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 didst	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 give	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 tavern	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tavern	det
8	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 give	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 didst	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 didst	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 call	cc
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 call	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 call	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 call	aux
19	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 didst	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 vain	case
21	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 call	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 didst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	do	past	Thou					tree rules
2	give	infinitive	Thou not said here	something	me	the tavern		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme at tavern=Asset
3	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Thou not said here	man				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4	call speech: assert	may	I			vain	now	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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