Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 80

And his sister said to him, "Tell me, why dost thou keep these big dogs?

Who acts: sister · What happens: say, tell, do, keep · To what, where: serpent, sister, thou, big dogs · 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 (sister), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sister	nmod:poss
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct
9	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Tell	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dost	punct
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 dost	advmod
13	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Tell	conj
14	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 dost	obj
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 dost	xcomp
16	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 dogs	det
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dogs	amod
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 keep	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	serpent's sister		serpent	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			serpent's sister = sister	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	do in a quote	present		thou		tree rules
4	keep in a quote	infinitive		this big dogs		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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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