Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 36

Then the Prince gathered up the six dragon-heads and laid them on one side, and cut out the six lolling tongues and tied them in his handkerchief, and told the Princess to go back to her palace, for they could not be married for a year and twelve weeks, and if by that time he did not appear, she was to marry another, and with that he departed.

Who acts: Prince, Princess · What happens: gather up, lay, cut out, loll, tie, tell · To what, where: six dragon heads, heads, one side, six lolling tongues, handkerchief, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Princess), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gathered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gathered	nsubj
4	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 gathered	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heads	det
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 heads	nummod
8	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heads	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 dragon	punct
10	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gathered	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 laid	cc
12	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gathered	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laid	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 side	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 side	nummod
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cut	cc
19	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gathered	parataxis
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 cut	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tongues	det
22	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 tongues	nummod
23	lolling	loll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 tongues	amod
24	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cut	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tied	cc
26	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tied	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 handkerchief	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 handkerchief	nmod:poss
30	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tied	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 told	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 told	cc
33	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gathered	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Princess	det
35	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 told	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 go	mark
37	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 told	xcomp
38	back	back	ADV	_	37 go	advmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 palace	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 palace	nmod:poss
41	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 go	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 married	punct
43	for	for	SCONJ	_	48 married	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 married	nsubj:pass
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 married	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 married	advmod
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 married	aux:pass
48	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 told	conj
49	for	for	ADP	_	51 year	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 year	det
51	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 married	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 weeks	cc
53	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 weeks	nummod
54	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 year	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 marry	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 marry	cc
57	if	if	SCONJ	_	64 appear	mark
58	by	by	ADP	_	60 time	case
59	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 time	det
60	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 appear	obl
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 appear	nsubj
62	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 appear	aux
63	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	64 appear	advmod
64	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 marry	advcl
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 appear	punct
66	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 marry	nsubj
67	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 marry	cop
68	to	to	PART	_	69 marry	mark
69	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gathered	conj
70	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	69 marry	obj
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	76 departed	punct
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	76 departed	cc
73	with	with	SCONJ	_	76 departed	mark
74	that	that	SCONJ	_	76 departed	mark
75	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	76 departed	nsubj
76	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gathered	conj
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather up	past	the Prince	the six dragon heads			then		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	lay	past	the Prince not said here	heads = head		one side			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on side=Destination
3	cut out	participle		the six lolling tongues					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tongue=Eventuality
4	loll	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tie	past		heads = head		Prince's handkerchief			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	tell speech: assert	past			the Princess				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient clause=Topic
7	go back not said to happen	to-infinitive						to Princess's palace result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result
8	not marry	could · passive		heads = head			year		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	not appear a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	Prince				time		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	is	past	Princess					marry property	tree rules
11	depart	past	Prince						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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