Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 123

And they used such threats to his mother and the Princess, that they made them promise not to tell about Prince Ivan when they got home.

Who acts: shoes, threats · What happens: use, make, promise, not tell, get · To what, where: such threats, threats · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoes, threats), 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	_	3 used	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 used	nsubj
3	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 threats	amod
5	threats	threat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 used	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 mother	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Princess	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mother	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 made	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 used	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	obj
17	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 made	xcomp
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 tell	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 tell	mark
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 promise	ccomp
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 Ivan	case
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Ivan	compound
23	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 tell	obl
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 got	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 got	nsubj
26	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	advcl
27	home	home	ADV	_	26 got	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	past	shoes = shoe	such threats	to Ivan's mother and the Princess	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threat=Patient
2	make	past	shoes = shoe	threats = threat		tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	infinitive	threats = threat not said here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive			about Prince Ivan	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about ivan=Topic
5	get	past	shoes = shoe		home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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