Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 190

Then he said to the crab, "I'll catch thee."--"Oh! seize me not!" said the crab, "but let me get back into the sea, and I'll be of great service to thee."--"Very well," said Tremsin, "but thou must get me from the sea the coral necklace of the thrice-lovely Nastasia," and with that he let the crab go back into the sea again.

Who acts: crab, horse, Tremsin, thou · What happens: say, catch, not seize, let, get back, be · To what, where: crab, thee, horse, sea, coral necklace, Tremsin · 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 (crab, horse, Tremsin, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 crab	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crab	det
6	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 crab	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 catch	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 catch	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 catch	aux
11	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
12	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 catch	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 catch	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 catch	punct
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 seize	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 seize	punct
17	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	19 seize	discourse
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 Oh	punct
19	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 catch	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 seize	obj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 seize	advmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 catch	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 catch	punct
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 crab	det
26	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 let	cc
30	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 let	obj
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 let	xcomp
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 get	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 sea	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sea	det
36	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 service	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 service	cc
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 service	nsubj
40	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 service	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 service	cop
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 service	case
43	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 service	amod
44	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	parataxis
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 thee	case
46	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	44 service	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
49	--	--	PUNCT	_	52 well	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 well	punct
51	Very	very	ADV	_	52 well	advmod
52	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	55 said	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 well	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 well	punct
55	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
56	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 said	nsubj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 Tremsin	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 said	punct
59	but	but	CCONJ	_	62 get	cc
60	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	62 get	nsubj
61	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 get	aux
62	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 said	conj
63	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 get	obj
64	from	from	ADP	_	66 sea	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 sea	det
66	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 get	obl
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 necklace	det
68	coral	coral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 necklace	amod
69	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 get	obj
70	of	of	ADP	_	75 Nastasia	case
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	75 Nastasia	det
72	thrice	thrice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	74 lovely	amod
73	-	-	PUNCT	_	72 thrice	punct
74	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 Nastasia	amod
75	Nastasia	Nastasia	PROPN	Number=Sing	69 necklace	nmod
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 get	punct
77	"	"	PUNCT	_	62 get	punct
78	and	and	CCONJ	_	82 let	cc
79	with	with	SCONJ	_	82 let	mark
80	that	that	SCONJ	_	82 let	mark
81	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	82 let	nsubj
82	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 said	conj
83	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	84 crab	det
84	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	85 go	nsubj
85	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	82 let	xcomp
86	back	back	ADV	_	85 go	advmod
87	into	into	ADP	_	89 sea	case
88	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	89 sea	det
89	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	85 go	obl
90	again	again	ADV	_	85 go	advmod
91	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	crab		the crab		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to crab=Recipient clause=Topic
2	catch in a quote	future	the crab = crab	thee					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme
3	not seize in a quote	infinitive	the horse = horse not said here	the horse = horse					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the crab						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	let in a quote	infinitive	crab not said here	crab					tree rules
6	get back in a quote	infinitive	crab not said here			the sea			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination
7	is in a quote	future	crab					of great service; to thee	tree rules
8	say speech: assert	past	Tremsin					well property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	get in a quote	must	thou	the coral necklace of the lovely Nastasia	Tremsin	the sea			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary necklace=Theme
10	let	past	crab						tree rules
11	go back	infinitive	the crab			the sea	again		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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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