Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 23

I have a mighty host, and when the time comes for you to sit down on the bridal bench, we'll surround your house with three strong rows of soldiers, and _they_ won't let the Iron Wolf get at you, I can tell you."

Who acts: I, time, we, soldiers, Iron Wolf · What happens: have, come, sit down, surround, not let, get · To what, where: mighty host, bridal bench, house, you · 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 (I, time, we, soldiers), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 host	det
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 host	amod
5	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 comes	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 comes	cc
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 comes	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 comes	nsubj
11	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 comes	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sit	mark
15	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 comes	advcl
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 sit	compound:prt
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 bench	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bench	det
19	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bench	amod
20	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sit	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 surround	punct
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 surround	nsubj
23	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 surround	aux
24	surround	surround	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sit	conj
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 house	nmod:poss
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 surround	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 rows	case
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 rows	nummod
29	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 rows	amod
30	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 surround	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 soldiers	case
32	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 rows	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 let	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 let	cc
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 they	punct
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 let	nsubj
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 they	punct
38	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 let	aux
39	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 let	advmod
40	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	parataxis
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Wolf	det
42	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Wolf	compound
43	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 get	nsubj
44	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 let	parataxis
45	at	at	ADP	_	46 you	case
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 get	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 tell	punct
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 tell	nsubj
49	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 tell	aux
50	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 let	conj
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 tell	iobj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	a mighty host				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Patient
2	come	present	the time				for you	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit down	to-infinitive	the time not said here			the bridal bench		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
4	surround	future	we	your house			with three strong rows of soldiers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Destination with row=Theme
5	not let	future	soldiers = soldier					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
6	get	present	the Iron Wolf				at you	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	tell speech: assert	can	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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