Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 77
I have offered him my lovely wife, who is the very choicest of my chattels, and he won't have her!"--Then said the Accursed One, "Promise me what thou shalt find awaiting thee at home, and I'll let thee go."
Who acts: lovely wife, TSAR, thou, I, thee · What happens: offer, be, not have, say, accurs, promise · To what, where: I, TSAR, wife, One, me, 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 (lovely wife, TSAR, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 offered | aux |
| 3 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 offered | iobj |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wife | amod |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 choicest | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 choicest | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 choicest | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 choicest | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 choicest | advmod |
| 13 | choicest | choice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 wife | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 chattels | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 chattels | nmod:poss |
| 16 | chattels | chattel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 choicest | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 20 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 have | advmod |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 offered | parataxis |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 27 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 said | advmod |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 offered | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Accursed | det |
| 30 | Accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 said | ccomp |
| 31 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 Accursed | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Promise | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Promise | punct |
| 34 | Promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 said | conj |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 Promise | obj |
| 36 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 find | obj |
| 37 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 find | nsubj |
| 38 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 39 find | aux |
| 39 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 Promise | advcl |
| 40 | awaiting | await | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 find | xcomp |
| 41 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 awaiting | obj |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 home | case |
| 43 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 awaiting | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 let | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 let | cc |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 let | nsubj |
| 47 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 let | aux |
| 48 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 offered | parataxis |
| 49 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 48 let | obj |
| 50 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 let | xcomp |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 48 let | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | present · perfect · passive | I | TSAR | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | my lovely wife | of my chattels; choice property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not have | future | TSAR | wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | accurs in a quote | participle | One | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | promise speech: promise | infinitive | me | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 7 | find | shall | thou | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | await | gerund | thou not said here | thee | home | tree rules | |||
| 9 | let | future | I | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | go | infinitive | thee not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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