Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 15
Didn't I tell you to listen to nobody but me!"
Who acts: I · What happens: not do, tell, listen · To what, where: you · 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 (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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Did | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 listen | mark |
| 7 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 nobody | case |
| 9 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 listen | obl |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 me | cc |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Did | conj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | listen not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | to nobody | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to nobody=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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