Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 69

So now, too, he began to laugh at the young Tsarevich and say to him, "I know how to find out who this fine lady is."--"How?" asked the young Tsarevich.--"I'll tell thee," said the jester; "smear with pitch the place in church where she is wont to stand.

Who acts: Tsarevich, fine lady, young Tsarevich, jester, Lady · What happens: begin, laugh, say, know, find out, be · To what, where: young Tsarevich, Tsarevich, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarevich, fine lady, young Tsarevich, jester), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 now	advmod
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 began	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 now	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	7 began	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 too	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 said	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 laugh	mark
9	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 Tsarevich	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Tsarevich	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Tsarevich	amod
13	Tsarevich	Tsarevich	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 laugh	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 say	cc
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 laugh	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 say	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
21	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 began	parataxis
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 find	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 find	mark
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 know	ccomp
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 find	compound:prt
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 is	obj
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 lady	det
28	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lady	amod
29	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 is	nsubj
30	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 find	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 asked	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 How	punct
35	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 asked	advmod
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	35 How	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 How	punct
38	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 said	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Tsarevich	det
40	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Tsarevich	amod
41	Tsarevich	Tsarevich	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 asked	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 Tsarevich	punct
43	--	--	PUNCT	_	47 tell	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 tell	punct
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 tell	nsubj
46	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 tell	aux
47	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 asked	ccomp
48	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	47 tell	iobj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 tell	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 tell	punct
51	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 jester	det
53	jester	jester	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 said	obj
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 smear	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	56 smear	punct
56	smear	smear	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 said	ccomp
57	with	with	ADP	_	58 pitch	case
58	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 smear	nmod
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 place	det
60	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 smear	appos
61	in	in	ADP	_	62 church	case
62	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 place	nmod
63	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	66 wont	advmod
64	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 wont	nsubj
65	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	66 wont	cop
66	wont	wont	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 church	acl:relcl
67	to	to	PART	_	68 stand	mark
68	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	66 wont	xcomp
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Tsarevich			now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	laugh	to-infinitive	Tsarevich not said here		the young Tsarevich			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	Tsarevich not said here	Tsarevich				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	know in a quote	present	the Tsarevich = tsarevich					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	find out in a quote	to-infinitive						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	be in a quote	present	this fine lady					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot who=Theme
7	ask speech: ask	past	the young Tsarevich					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the young Tsarevich = tsarevich	thee				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
9	say speech: assert	past	the jester					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	is in a quote	present	Lady				wont property	tree rules
11	stand in a quote	to-infinitive	Lady not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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