Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 35

Then the king gave orders that an aspen stake should be driven into his daughter's breast, and that her body should be thrust into a hole in the ground.

Who acts: king, body · What happens: give, drive, be · To what, where: orders, aspen stake, breast, thrust, hole

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (king, body), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 driven	obj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stake	det
8	aspen	aspen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stake	amod
9	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 driven	nsubj:pass
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 driven	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 driven	aux:pass
12	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 orders	acl:relcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	17 breast	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 daughter	nmod:poss
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 breast	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 daughter	case
17	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 driven	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thrust	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 thrust	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 thrust	mark
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 body	nmod:poss
22	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thrust	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 thrust	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 thrust	cop
25	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 hole	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hole	det
28	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thrust	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 ground	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ground	det
31	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hole	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	give	past	the king	orders		then	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
2	drive	should · passive		a aspen stake	King's daughter's breast		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme that=Destination
3	is a	should	lad's body	thrust	a hole in the ground		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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