Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 94
And whatever she may say to thee, and however she may implore thee, let her not get into it again until she says to thee, '_My consort!
Who acts: better · What happens: say, implore, let, not get · To what, where: whatever, thee, better, coffin · 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 (better), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 say | cc |
| 2 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 say | obj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 thee | case |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 say | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 implore | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 implore | cc |
| 10 | however | however | ADV | _ | 13 implore | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 implore | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 implore | aux |
| 13 | implore | implore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | conj |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 implore | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 implore | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 get | advmod |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 get | obl |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 get | advmod |
| 23 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 says | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 says | nsubj |
| 25 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 get | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 thee | case |
| 27 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 says | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 consort | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 consort | punct |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 consort | punct |
| 31 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 consort | nmod:poss |
| 32 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 implore | obl |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | may | better = good | whatever | thee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic to thou=Recipient | |||
| 2 | implore | may | better = good | thee | My consort obl; however property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | better = good not said here | better = good | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not get | infinitive | better = good not said here | coffin | again | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | better = good | thee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to thou=Recipient |
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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