Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 4, sentence 11

His wife thought that he was sulky, and therefore did not speak to her, so she begged him not to be angry; and, getting no answer, took him by the hand, and lo! his hand was cold, as cold as lead, and she screamed out.

Who acts: wife, Tsar, getting, hand · What happens: think, be, not speak, beg, not be, get · To what, where: wife, Tsar, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Tsar, getting, hand), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 sulky	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sulky	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sulky	cop
7	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 speak	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 speak	cc
10	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	13 speak	advmod
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 speak	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 speak	advmod
13	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sulky	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 speak	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 begged	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 begged	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 begged	nsubj
19	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 begged	obj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 angry	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	24 angry	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 angry	cop
24	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 begged	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 took	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 took	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 getting	punct
28	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 took	csubj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 answer	det
30	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 getting	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 getting	punct
32	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 took	obj
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 hand	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hand	det
36	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 took	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 cold	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 cold	cc
39	lo	lo	INTJ	_	44 cold	discourse
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 lo	punct
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 hand	nmod:poss
42	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 cold	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 cold	cop
44	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 took	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 cold	punct
46	as	as	ADP	_	47 cold	case
47	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 took	conj
48	as	as	ADP	_	49 lead	case
49	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 cold	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 screamed	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 screamed	cc
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 screamed	nsubj
53	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 took	conj
54	out	out	ADP	_	53 screamed	compound:prt
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Tsar's wife				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Tsar			sulky property	tree rules
3	not speak speech: other	past · do-support	Tsar not said here		wife	therefore property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
4	beg speech: request	past	wife		Tsar		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	not is	to-infinitive	wife not said here			angry property	tree rules
6	get	gerund		no answer			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus
7	take	past	getting		Tsar	by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
8	is	past	Tsar's hand			cold property	tree rules
9	scream out speech: express	past	wife				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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