Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 48

Then the King's son took out his handkerchief, unrolled it, showed them the six tongues, and put each one into one of the six mouths of the Dragon's six heads, and each of the tongues began to speak and bid the Princess say how the matter went.

Who acts: son, each, Princess, matter · What happens: take out, unroll, show, put, begin, speak · To what, where: handkerchief, sons, one · 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 (son, each, Princess, matter), 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	6 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 King	case
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 took	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 handkerchief	nmod:poss
9	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 unrolled	punct
11	unrolled	unroll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 unrolled	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 showed	punct
14	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 showed	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tongues	det
17	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 tongues	nummod
18	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 showed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 showed	conj
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	25 one	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 put	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 mouths	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mouths	det
28	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 mouths	nummod
29	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 one	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	35 heads	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Dragon	det
32	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 heads	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 Dragon	case
34	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 heads	nummod
35	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 mouths	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 began	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 began	cc
38	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	42 began	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 tongues	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 tongues	det
41	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 each	nmod
42	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 speak	mark
44	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 began	xcomp
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 bid	cc
46	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 speak	conj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Princess	det
48	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 say	nsubj
49	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 bid	ccomp
50	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	53 went	advmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 matter	det
52	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 went	nsubj
53	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 say	ccomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take out	past	the King's son	King's handkerchief	then		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme
2	unroll	past	the King's son not said here	handkerchief			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	show	past	the King's son not said here	sons = son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient tongue=Topic
4	put	infinitive	the King's son not said here	each one		into one of the six mouths of the Dragon's six heads	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal
5	begin	past	each				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	each not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	bid	infinitive	each not said here				tree rules
8	say speech: assert	present	the Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	go	past	the matter				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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