Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 25

Thou wilt perish, and we shall perish also!"--Then said the bullock, "Little Tsar! look into my left ear and thou wilt see a horse-comb.

Who acts: Thou, we · What happens: perish, say, look, see · To what, where: bullock, horse comb · 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, we), 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	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 perish	nsubj
2	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	3 perish	aux
3	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 perish	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 perish	cc
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 perish	nsubj
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 perish	aux
8	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 perish	conj
9	also	also	ADV	_	8 perish	advmod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 perish	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 perish	punct
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 said	advmod
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 perish	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bullock	det
16	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Tsar	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Tsar	punct
19	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Tsar	amod
20	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 bullock	appos
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 Tsar	punct
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
23	into	into	ADP	_	26 ear	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 ear	nmod:poss
25	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ear	amod
26	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 look	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 see	cc
28	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 see	nsubj
29	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 look	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 comb	det
32	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 comb	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 horse	punct
34	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 perish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	perish	future	Thou				tree rules
2	perish	shall	we				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the bullock	then		tree rules
4	look	infinitive				into my left ear	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into ear=Theme
5	see	future	thou	a horse comb			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comb=Stimulus

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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