Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 88

The Water King saw that there was nothing to be gained that way, so he gave orders to prepare a bath-room for the young couple--an iron bath-room--and to heat it as hot as possible.

Who acts: Water King, nothing, King · What happens: see, be, gain, give, prepare, heat · To what, where: way, orders, bath room

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 (Water King, nothing, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
2	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 King	compound
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 was	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	ccomp
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 was	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 gained	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 gained	aux:pass
11	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 nothing	acl
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gained	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 gave	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
18	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gave	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 prepare	mark
20	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 gave	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 room	det
22	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 room	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 bath	punct
24	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 prepare	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 couple	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 couple	det
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 couple	amod
28	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 room	nmod
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 room	punct
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 room	det
31	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 room	amod
32	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 room	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 bath	punct
34	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 couple	conj
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 heat	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 heat	cc
37	to	to	PART	_	38 heat	mark
38	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 prepare	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 heat	obj
40	as	as	ADV	_	41 hot	advmod
41	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 heat	xcomp
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 possible	mark
43	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 hot	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Water King				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	gain	to-infinitive · passive	nothing not said here	that way			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: way=Theme
4	give	past	King	orders			tree rules
5	prepare	to-infinitive	King not said here	a bath room		for the young couple and a iron bath room	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent room=Product for couple=Beneficiary
6	heat	to-infinitive	King not said here	way		hot property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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