Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 64
Ask what thou wilt of me," said he, "only let me go."--"Give me, then," said the Accursed One, "something that thou hast in the house, and then I'll let thee go!"--"Let me see, what have I got?" said the Tsar. "
Who acts: you, TSAR, me, thou, I, thee · What happens: ask, say, let, go, give, accurs · To what, where: me, house, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, TSAR, me, thou), 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 wilt | obj |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 wilt | nsubj |
| 4 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wilt | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wilt | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wilt | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | ccomp |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 he | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 let | advmod |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 Give | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Give | punct |
| 21 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 said | ccomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 Give | iobj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 then | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 Give | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 then | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Give | punct |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | ccomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 One | det |
| 29 | Accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 One | amod |
| 30 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 said | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 something | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 something | punct |
| 33 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 30 One | appos |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 hast | obj |
| 35 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 hast | nsubj |
| 36 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 something | acl:relcl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 house | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 house | det |
| 39 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hast | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 let | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 let | cc |
| 42 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 let | advmod |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 let | nsubj |
| 44 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 let | aux |
| 45 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 said | ccomp |
| 46 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 45 let | obj |
| 47 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 let | xcomp |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 47 go | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 let | punct |
| 50 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 52 Let | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 Let | punct |
| 52 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 said | ccomp |
| 53 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 Let | obj |
| 54 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 Let | xcomp |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 got | punct |
| 56 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 59 got | obj |
| 57 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 59 got | aux |
| 58 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 59 got | nsubj |
| 59 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 52 Let | parataxis |
| 60 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 59 got | punct |
| 61 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 59 got | punct |
| 62 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 59 got | conj |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 Tsar | det |
| 64 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 62 said | nsubj |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
| 66 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | TSAR | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | me not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | me | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | accurs in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | have | present | thou | the house | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 9 | let | future | I | thee | then | tree rules | |||
| 10 | go | infinitive | thee not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 11 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 12 | see | infinitive | me not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 13 | get | present · perfect | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 14 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Tsar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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