Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 181

This Ivan is in our hands; let us send him to see why it is the sun grows so red when he sets."--"That's just the same as if you sent him to a place whence he can never return."--"All the better."--Then they sent for Ivan, and gave him this errand, and he returned home to his wife, weeping bitterly.

Who acts: Ivan, us, long, overseer, That, you · What happens: be, let, send, see, set, not return · To what, where: hands, us, overseer, place, errand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, us, long, overseer), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Ivan	det
2	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hands	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hands	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 hands	parataxis
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 send	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 send	advcl
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 grows	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 grows	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 grows	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun	det
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grows	nsubj
19	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 see	advcl
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 red	advmod
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grows	xcomp
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 sets	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sets	nsubj
24	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 red	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 same	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 same	punct
29	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 same	nsubj
30	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 same	cop
31	just	just	ADV	_	33 same	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 same	det
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 let	parataxis
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 sent	mark
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 sent	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 sent	nsubj
37	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 same	advcl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sent	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 place	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 place	det
41	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sent	obl
42	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	46 return	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 return	nsubj
44	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 return	aux
45	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	46 return	advmod
46	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 place	acl:relcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
49	--	--	PUNCT	_	53 better	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 better	punct
51	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 better	det:predet
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 better	det
53	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 let	parataxis
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
56	--	--	PUNCT	_	59 sent	punct
57	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	59 sent	advmod
58	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 sent	nsubj
59	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 let	parataxis
60	for	for	ADP	_	61 Ivan	case
61	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 sent	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 gave	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 gave	cc
64	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 sent	conj
65	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 gave	iobj
66	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	67 errand	det
67	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 gave	obj
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 returned	punct
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 returned	cc
70	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 returned	nsubj
71	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 gave	conj
72	home	home	ADV	_	71 returned	advmod
73	to	to	ADP	_	75 wife	case
74	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	75 wife	nmod:poss
75	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 returned	obl
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 weeping	punct
77	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	71 returned	advcl
78	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	77 weeping	advmod
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this Ivan			our hands			tree rules
2	let	infinitive		us					tree rules
3	send	infinitive	us not said here	overseer					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	us not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	long					grow, red property	tree rules
6	set	present	overseer						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	is	present	That					same property	tree rules
8	send	past	you	overseer		a place			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to place=Destination
9	not return	can	overseer					whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	send in a quote	past	IVAN				then	for Ivan	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
11	give in a quote	past	IVAN not said here	this errand	overseer				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient errand=Theme
12	return in a quote	past	overseer					to overseer's wife result; home property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wife=Result
13	weep in a quote	gerund	overseer not said here					bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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