Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 19
Thou knowest how to borrow, but thou forgettest to repay!"
Who acts: Thou · What happens: know, borrow, forget, not repay
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 (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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 knowest | nsubj |
| 2 | knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 borrow | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 borrow | mark |
| 5 | borrow | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knowest | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 forgettest | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 forgettest | cc |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 forgettest | nsubj |
| 9 | forgettest | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 knowest | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 repay | mark |
| 11 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 forgettest | xcomp |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 knowest | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 knowest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | borrow | to-infinitive | Thou not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | forget | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not repay | to-infinitive | thou not said here | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: 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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