Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 72
For that thou hast let me go, I'll give thee, little Tsar Novishny, a wolf-whelp."--Then she said to the little wolf, "Thou shalt serve this dear little Tsar as though he were thine own dear father."
Who acts: thou, me, I, Methought, Tsar · What happens: have, let, go, give, say, serve · To what, where: me, little Tsar, own dear 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 (thou, me, I, Methought), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 give | obl |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 hast | nsubj |
| 4 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 that | acl:relcl |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hast | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 that | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tsar | punct |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Tsar | amod |
| 15 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 give | iobj |
| 16 | Novishny | Novishny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Tsar | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 whelp | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 whelp | det |
| 19 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 whelp | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 wolf | punct |
| 21 | whelp | whelp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Tsar | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 whelp | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 whelp | punct |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 25 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 said | advmod |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 wolf | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wolf | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wolf | amod |
| 31 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 said | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 serve | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 serve | punct |
| 34 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 serve | nsubj |
| 35 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 36 serve | aux |
| 36 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 said | ccomp |
| 37 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 Tsar | nsubj |
| 38 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Tsar | amod |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Tsar | amod |
| 40 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 serve | parataxis |
| 41 | as | as | ADV | _ | 48 father | advmod |
| 42 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 48 father | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 father | nsubj |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 father | cop |
| 45 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 48 father | nmod:poss |
| 46 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 father | amod |
| 47 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 father | amod |
| 48 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 serve | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | thou not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | me not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | future | I | little Tsar | for that | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient tsar=Theme for that=Asset | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Methought | then | to the little wolf | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to wolf=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 6 | serve | shall | Thou | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | Tsar | thine own dear 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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