Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 96

Ask him to get thee hare's milk; perhaps his beasts will gobble up the hare before he can milk it."

Who acts: you, beasts · What happens: ask, get, gobble up · To what, where: four, thee, hare

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 (you, beasts), 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	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
5	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 get	obj
6	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 milk	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 hare	case
8	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 gobble	punct
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	14 gobble	advmod
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 beasts	nmod:poss
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gobble	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 gobble	aux
14	gobble	gobble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 gobble	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hare	det
17	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gobble	obj
18	before	before	ADP	_	21 milk	case
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 milk	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 milk	aux
21	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gobble	obl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gobble	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		four			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	thee				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary milk=Theme
3	gobble up	future	four's beasts	the hare		before milk	perhaps property	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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