Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 46

Then they told this to the coachman, who had been made a Prince, and the coachman was very angry and said, "Whoever maintains that a Dragon has tongues, him will I order to be tied to four wild horses, and they shall tear him to pieces on the open steppe!"

Who acts: Tsar, coachman, Whoever, Dragon, tongues · What happens: tell, make, be, say, maintain, have · To what, where: this, coachman, brother · 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 (Tsar, coachman, Whoever, Dragon), 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	3 told	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 told	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 coachman	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coachman	det
7	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 made	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 made	aux:pass
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 coachman	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Prince	det
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 made	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 angry	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 angry	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 coachman	det
18	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 angry	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 angry	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 angry	advmod
21	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 maintains	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 maintains	punct
26	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 maintains	nsubj
27	maintains	maintain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 said	ccomp
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 has	mark
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 Dragon	det
30	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 has	nsubj
31	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 maintains	advcl
32	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 order	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 him	punct
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tongues	nmod
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 order	aux
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 order	nsubj
37	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 has	ccomp
38	to	to	PART	_	40 tied	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 tied	aux:pass
40	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 order	xcomp
41	to	to	ADP	_	44 horses	case
42	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 horses	nummod
43	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 horses	amod
44	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 tied	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 tear	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 tear	cc
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 tear	nsubj
48	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 tear	aux
49	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 tear	obj
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 pieces	case
52	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 tear	obl
53	on	on	ADP	_	56 steppe	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 steppe	det
55	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 steppe	amod
56	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 pieces	nmod
57	!	!	PUNCT	_	49 tear	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 tear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Tsar	this	then	to the coachman	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent this=Recipient clause=Topic
2	make	past · perfect · passive		the coachman			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary prince=Product
3	is	past	the coachman			angry property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Tsar not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	maintain in a quote	present	Whoever				vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent
6	have in a quote	present	a Dragon				tree rules
7	order in a quote	future	tongues brother				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	tie not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	tongues brother not said here			to four wild horses	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: to horse=Co-Patient
9	tear in a quote	shall	Tsar	brother		to pieces on the open steppe result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to piece=Result

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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