Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 126
Then said the vixen to him, "Thanks to thee, little Tsar Novishny, that thou hast let me go.
Who acts: thou, that, me · What happens: say, have, let, go · To what, where: vixen, Tsar, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, that, me), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vixen | det |
| 4 | vixen | vixen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Thanks | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Thanks | punct |
| 9 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 thee | case |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 Thanks | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Tsar | punct |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Tsar | amod |
| 14 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Thanks | nmod |
| 15 | Novishny | Novishny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Tsar | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 let | nsubj:outer |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 hast | nsubj |
| 19 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 that | acl:relcl |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Thanks | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the vixen | Tsar | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | thou | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | that | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | me 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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