Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 48

Well, Ivan undertook to kill that Snake, so he said to his father, "Father, make me a mace five poods in weight."

Who acts: Ivan, Father · What happens: undertake, kill, say, make · To what, where: Snake, IVAN, weight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, Father), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 undertook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 undertook	nsubj
4	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 kill	mark
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 undertook	xcomp
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 Snake	det
8	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 undertook	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 father	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 father	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Father	punct
18	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 make	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Father	punct
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 make	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mace	det
23	mace	mace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	obj
24	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 poods	nummod
25	poods	pood	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 make	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 weight	case
27	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 undertook	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 undertook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	undertake	past	Ivan				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	kill	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here	that Snake			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	IVAN				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make in a quote	infinitive	Father	IVAN	weight	to IVAN's father	tree rules

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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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