Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 112

"Why did not ye seize them?" cried the Water King, who thereupon put the pursuers to a cruel death, and sent another troop after the Prince and Vasilissa the Wise.

Who acts: ye, Water King · What happens: not seize, cry, put, send · To what, where: pursuers, troop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, Water King), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 seize	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 seize	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seize	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 seize	advmod
5	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 seize	nsubj
6	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	parataxis
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seize	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 seize	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 seize	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
12	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 King	compound
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 put	nsubj
16	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	17 put	advmod
17	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 King	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pursuers	det
19	pursuers	pursuer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 put	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 death	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 death	det
22	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 death	amod
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sent	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sent	cc
26	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 troop	det
28	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sent	obj
29	after	after	ADP	_	31 Prince	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Prince	det
31	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sent	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Vasilissa	cc
33	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Prince	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Wise	det
35	Wise	Wise	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Vasilissa	appos
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not seize in a quote	past · do-support	ye	pursuers = pursuer			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	the Water King				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	put	past	the Water King	the pursuers		to a cruel death; thereupon property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pursuer=Goal
4	send	past	the Water King not said here	another troop	after the Prince and Vasilissa		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troop=Theme

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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