Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 9

Good health to my lord!" cried he.--"Good health!"--"I have come on an errand to thee, dear little master!"--"What may thine errand be?" inquired the rich man.--"Alas! would to God that I had no need to say it.

Who acts: Good health, I, errand · What happens: cry, come, be, inquire, have, say · To what, where: Perchance, errand, rich man, God, need · 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 (Good health, I, errand), 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 health	amod
2	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 lord	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 lord	nmod:poss
5	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 lord	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lord	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 health	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 health	punct
13	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 health	amod
14	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 health	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 health	punct
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 cried	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 errand	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 errand	det
24	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 thee	case
26	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 errand	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 master	punct
28	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 master	amod
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 master	amod
30	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 errand	appos
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 master	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 master	punct
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 be	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 be	punct
35	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 be	obj
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 be	aux
37	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	38 errand	nmod:poss
38	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 be	nsubj
39	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	parataxis
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	39 be	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 be	punct
42	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 man	det
44	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 man	amod
45	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 inquired	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
47	--	--	PUNCT	_	49 Alas	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 Alas	punct
49	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	53 God	discourse
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	49 Alas	punct
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 God	aux
52	to	to	ADP	_	53 God	case
53	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cried	conj
54	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 had	obj
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 had	nsubj
56	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 God	acl:relcl
57	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	58 need	det
58	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 had	obj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 say	mark
60	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 need	acl
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 say	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Good health	Perchance			to my lord; Good health obl	tree rules
2	come	present · perfect	I			a errand to thee		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on errand=Location
3	be	may	thine errand					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	inquire speech: other in a quote	past	Good health not said here		the rich man			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
5	have	past	I	God				tree rules
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	need				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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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