Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 99

Well, I can only say that if he's the good master thou sayest he is, I am rather surprised that he knocks thee on the head so much with a hammer."--"Well, that's true," said the gimlet, "I never thought of that.

Who acts: I, TSAR, thou, that · What happens: say, be, knock, not think · To what, where: good master, thee, head, gimlet · 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 (I, TSAR, thou, that), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 surprised	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 sayest	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 master	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 master	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 master	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 master	amod
13	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 if	fixed
14	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 sayest	nsubj
15	sayest	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 surprised	advcl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 is	nsubj
17	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sayest	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sayest	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 surprised	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 surprised	cop
21	rather	rather	ADV	_	22 surprised	advmod
22	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 said	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 knocks	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knocks	nsubj
25	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 surprised	ccomp
26	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 knocks	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 head	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 head	det
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knocks	obl
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADV	_	25 knocks	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 hammer	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hammer	det
34	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knocks	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 surprised	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 surprised	punct
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 true	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 true	punct
39	Well	well	INTJ	_	43 true	discourse
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Well	punct
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 true	nsubj
42	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 true	cop
43	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 surprised	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 surprised	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 surprised	punct
46	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 gimlet	det
48	gimlet	gimlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 said	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 thought	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 thought	punct
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 thought	nsubj
52	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	53 thought	advmod
53	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 said	conj
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 that	case
55	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 thought	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	can	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	present	TSAR	the good master			tree rules
3	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	thou				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	be	present	TSAR				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	I			surprised property	tree rules
6	knock	present	TSAR	thee	the head	with a hammer	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thou=Theme on head=Destination
7	is	present	that			true property	tree rules
8	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the gimlet			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gimlet=Topic
9	not think speech: other	past	I			of that	vn focus-87.1-1 «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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