Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 4

He thought and thought, and at last he said, "Look ye, wife!

Who acts: other · What happens: think, say, look · To what, where: last, ye · 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 (other), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 thought	cc
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Look	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Look	punct
13	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
14	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 Look	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wife	punct
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Look	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	other				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	other not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: express	past	other		last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look in a quote	infinitive		ye		wife obl	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ye=Attribute

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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