Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 54

There was once a Tsaritsa who had no child, and greatly desired one, so the soothsayers said to her, "Bid them catch thee a pike, bid them boil its head and nothing but its head, eat it, and thou shalt see what will happen."

Who acts: Tsaritsa, soothsayers, thou · What happens: be, have, desire, say, bid, catch · To what, where: child, one, Tsaritsa, soothsayers, thee, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsaritsa, soothsayers, thou), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	advcl
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Tsaritsa	det
5	Tsaritsa	Tsaritsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 desired	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 desired	cc
12	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	13 desired	advmod
13	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	parataxis
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 desired	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 said	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 soothsayers	det
18	soothsayers	soothsayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 desired	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Bid	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Bid	punct
24	Bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 Bid	obj
26	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 Bid	xcomp
27	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 catch	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 pike	det
29	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 catch	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bid	punct
31	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 Bid	parataxis
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bid	obj
33	boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 bid	conj
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 head	nmod:poss
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 boil	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 nothing	cc
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	35 head	conj
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 head	cc
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 head	nmod:poss
40	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 head	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 eat	punct
42	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 boil	conj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 eat	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 see	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 see	cc
46	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	48 see	nsubj
47	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	48 see	aux
48	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	conj
49	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	51 happen	nsubj
50	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 happen	aux
51	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 see	ccomp
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 see	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a Tsaritsa not said here			there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a Tsaritsa	no child				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	desire	past		one			greatly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the soothsayers		Tsaritsa			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	bid in a quote	infinitive		soothsayers = soothsayer				tree rules
6	catch in a quote	infinitive		thee				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary pike=Theme
7	bid in a quote	infinitive		soothsayers = soothsayer				tree rules
8	boil in a quote	infinitive		pike's head but pike's head				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient
9	eat in a quote	infinitive		child				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
10	see in a quote	shall	thou					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	happen in a quote	future						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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