Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 20

So the General went and said to him, "Come, why don't you marry?

Who acts: General, servant · What happens: go, say, come, not marry · To what, where: servant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (General, servant), 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	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 General	det
3	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Come	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Come	punct
11	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 marry	punct
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 marry	advmod
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 marry	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 marry	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 marry	nsubj
17	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Come	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	go	past	the General		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	the General not said here	servant	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not marry in a quote	present · do-support	servant		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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