Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 159

My master," said he, "hath given me a task to do that will clean undo me."--"What task is that?" asked the horse.--"Why, to fetch him the Bird Zhar."--"Why that's not a task, but a trifle," replied the horse. "

Who acts: master, task, that, trifle · What happens: say, give, do, clean, undo, be · To what, where: head, me, task, horse, Bird Zhar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, task, that, trifle), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 master	nmod:poss
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 master	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 master	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 given	nsubj:pass
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 he	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 given	punct
9	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 given	aux:pass
10	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 clean	advcl
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 given	iobj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 task	det
13	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 clean	nsubj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 task	acl
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 do	obj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 clean	aux
18	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
19	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 clean	xcomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 undo	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 clean	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 clean	punct
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 What	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 What	punct
25	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 asked	obj
26	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 What	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 What	cop
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 What	nsubj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 What	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 What	punct
31	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 horse	det
33	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 asked	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 fetch	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 fetch	punct
37	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	40 fetch	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fetch	punct
39	to	to	PART	_	40 fetch	mark
40	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 fetch	obj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Zhar	det
43	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Zhar	compound
44	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 fetch	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 fetch	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 fetch	punct
47	--	--	PUNCT	_	54 task	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 task	punct
49	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	54 task	advmod
50	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 task	nsubj
51	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 task	cop
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 task	advmod
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 task	det
54	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fetch	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 replied	punct
56	but	but	CCONJ	_	61 replied	cc
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 trifle	det
58	trifle	trifle	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 replied	nsubj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 trifle	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	58 trifle	punct
61	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 horse	det
63	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 replied	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	61 replied	punct
65	"	"	PUNCT	_	61 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	My master			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	present · passive		head	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme
3	do	to-infinitive	a task not said here	a task		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
4	clean	future	a task			tree rules
5	undo	infinitive	a task not said here	me		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
6	is a	present	task			tree rules
7	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	My master not said here		the horse	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient
8	fetch	to-infinitive		the Bird Zhar	head	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary zhar=Theme
9	not is a	present	that	a task		tree rules
10	reply speech: assert in a quote	past	a trifle	the horse		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic

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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