Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 129

But to the little fox she said, "Obey him as though he were thine own father."

Who acts: fox, horse · What happens: say, obey, be · To what, where: little fox, horse, own father · 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 (fox, horse), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 fox	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fox	amod
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Obey	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Obey	punct
10	Obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 Obey	obj
12	as	as	ADV	_	10 Obey	advmod
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 father	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 father	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 father	cop
16	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 father	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 father	amod
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Obey	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Obey	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Obey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	fox		the little fox	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fox=Recipient clause=Topic
2	obey in a quote	infinitive		horse		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is a in a quote	past	horse	thine own father		tree rules

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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