Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 76
After that the lackey said to the Tsarivna, "Thou must say now to all men that I saved thee from death, or if not, I will do to thee what I have done to him.
Who acts: lackey, Thou, men · What happens: say, save, do · To what, where: Tsarivna, men, thee, death, lackey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lackey, Thou, men), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lackey | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lackey | det |
| 4 | lackey | lackey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Tsarivna | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Tsarivna | det |
| 8 | Tsarivna | Tsarivna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 11 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 say | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | aux |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 say | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 men | det |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 say | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 saved | nsubj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 saved | nsubj |
| 20 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 men | acl:relcl |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 saved | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saved | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 do | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 do | cc |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 not | mark |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 do | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 not | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 do | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 do | aux |
| 31 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 say | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 thee | case |
| 33 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 do | obl |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 done | obj |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 done | nsubj |
| 36 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 done | aux |
| 37 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 do | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 done | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | that lackey | the Tsarivna | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to tsarivna=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | must | Thou | all men | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient | |||
| 3 | save in a quote | past | all men | thee | death | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent thou=Theme from death=Source | |||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | that lackey = lackey | to thee | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | present · perfect | that lackey = lackey | lackey | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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