Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 210

Then Tremsin went to his faithful steed and wept bitterly, and the horse said to him, "Wherefore dost thou weep?"--"Why should I not weep?" cried he; "the thrice-lovely Nastasia has given me a task to do that cannot be done.

Who acts: Tremsin, horse, thou · What happens: go, weep, say, do, not weep, cry · To what, where: faithful steed, SEA, lovely Nastasia, Tremsin, that · 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 (Tremsin, horse, 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 went	advmod
2	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 steed	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 steed	nmod:poss
6	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 steed	amod
7	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wept	cc
9	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	9 wept	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 weep	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 weep	punct
20	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	21 dost	advmod
21	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 weep	advcl
22	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 weep	nsubj
23	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 weep	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 weep	punct
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 weep	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 weep	punct
28	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	32 weep	advmod
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 weep	aux
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 weep	nsubj
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 weep	advmod
32	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 weep	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 weep	punct
35	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cried	obj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 given	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 given	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Nastasia	det
40	thrice	thrice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 lovely	amod
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 thrice	punct
42	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Nastasia	amod
43	Nastasia	Nastasia	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 given	nsubj:pass
44	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 given	aux
45	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 cried	conj
46	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 given	iobj
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 task	det
48	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 given	obj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 do	mark
50	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 task	acl
51	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 done	nsubj
52	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 done	aux
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 done	advmod
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 done	aux:pass
55	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 do	ccomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Tremsin			SEA's faithful steed	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to steed=Initial_Location
2	weep	past	Tremsin not said here					bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: ask	past	the horse		SEA				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do in a quote	present	thou not said here					wherefore property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	weep in a quote	infinitive	thou						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not weep in a quote	should	the horse = horse						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	cry speech: express	past	Tremsin not said here	SEA					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
8	give in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the lovely Nastasia	Tremsin				tree rules
9	do in a quote	to-infinitive							tree rules
10	not do in a quote	can · passive		that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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