Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 187

And the horse said to him, "Did I not tell thee that grievous woe would come upon thee if thou didst pick up that feather?"

Who acts: horse, grievous woe, thou · What happens: say, not tell, come, do, pick up · To what, where: nobleman, thee, feather · 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 (horse, grievous woe, thou), 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	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	_	12 tell	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
9	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 tell	advmod
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
13	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 tell	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 come	mark
15	grievous	grievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woe	amod
16	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	ccomp
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 thee	case
20	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 come	obl
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 didst	mark
22	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 didst	nsubj
23	didst	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	advcl
24	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 didst	xcomp
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 pick	compound:prt
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 feather	det
27	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pick	obj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the horse		nobleman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	the horse = horse		thee		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	would	grievous woe			thee	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon thou=Location
4	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	thou				tree rules
5	pick up in a quote	infinitive	thou not said here	that feather			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=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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