Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 37
Then the coachman of the Princess came up to the place and saw the six heads of the Dragon, and took them up and said to the Princess, "I will slay thee on the spot if thou dost not swear to me twelve times that thou wilt say I slew the Dragon, and wilt take me for thy husband!"
Who acts: coachman, thou · What happens: come up, see, take up, say, slay, not swear · To what, where: six heads, heads, Princess, thee, spot, coachman · 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 (coachman, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coachman | det |
| 3 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Princess | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coachman | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heads | det |
| 15 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 heads | nummod |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 saw | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Dragon | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Dragon | det |
| 19 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 heads | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 took | compound:prt |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 took | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Princess | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Princess | det |
| 29 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 said | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 slay | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 slay | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 slay | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 slay | aux |
| 34 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 said | conj |
| 35 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 slay | obj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 spot | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 spot | det |
| 38 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 slay | obl |
| 39 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 swear | mark |
| 40 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 swear | nsubj |
| 41 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 swear | aux |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 swear | advmod |
| 43 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 slay | advcl |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 me | case |
| 45 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 swear | obl |
| 46 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 times | nummod |
| 47 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 swear | obl:unmarked |
| 48 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 say | obj |
| 49 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 51 say | nsubj |
| 50 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 51 say | aux |
| 51 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 times | acl:relcl |
| 52 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 53 slew | nsubj |
| 53 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 say | ccomp |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 Dragon | det |
| 55 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 slew | obj |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 take | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 take | cc |
| 58 | wilt | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 59 take | aux |
| 59 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 60 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 59 take | obj |
| 61 | for | for | ADP | _ | 63 husband | case |
| 62 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 63 husband | nmod:poss |
| 63 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 take | obl |
| 64 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 59 take | punct |
| 65 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 59 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the coachman of the Princess | then | to the place | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past | the coachman of the Princess not said here | the six heads of the Dragon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take up | past | the coachman of the Princess not said here | heads = head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | the coachman of the Princess not said here | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to princess=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | slay in a quote | future | the coachman of the Princess = coachman | thee | the spot | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | |||
| 6 | not swear a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | thou | the coachman of the Princess = coachman | time | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | say speech: assert in a quote | future | thou | twelve times | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | slay in a quote | past | the coachman of the Princess = coachman | the Dragon | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient | ||||
| 9 | take in a quote | future | the coachman of the Princess = coachman | for thy husband | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for husband=Beneficiary |
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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