Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 24

So they talked the matter over till he let himself be persuaded, and then they began to make great preparations for the bridal banquet.

Who acts: soldiers, man · What happens: talk over, let, persuade, begin, make · To what, where: matter, man, great preparations

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 (soldiers, man), 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	_	3 talked	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talked	nsubj
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	obj
6	over	over	ADV	_	3 talked	advmod
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 let	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	nsubj
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talked	advcl
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 let	obj
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 persuaded	aux:pass
12	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 let	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 began	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talked	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 preparations	amod
21	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 make	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 banquet	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 banquet	det
24	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 banquet	amod
25	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 preparations	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk over	past	soldiers = soldier	the matter		over property	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent matter=Patient
2	let	past	man	man			tree rules
3	persuade	infinitive · passive	man not said here				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»
4	begin	past	soldiers = soldier		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	make	to-infinitive	soldiers = soldier not said here	great preparations		for the bridal banquet	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for banquet=Asset

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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