Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 49

Then the Princess told how she had knelt down and prayed out of the prayer-book while the King's son slew the Dragon, and how the wicked coachman had made her swear twelve times to that which was false.

Who acts: Princess, son, wicked coachman, that · What happens: tell, kneel down, pray, slay, make, swear · To what, where: Princess, prayer book, Dragon, wicked 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 (Princess, son, wicked coachman, that), 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 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 knelt	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knelt	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knelt	aux
8	knelt	kneel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	ccomp
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 knelt	compound:prt
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 prayed	cc
11	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	17 book	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 book	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 book	det
15	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 book	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 prayer	punct
17	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 prayed	obl
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 slew	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 King	det
20	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 son	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 King	case
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 slew	nsubj
23	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 prayed	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Dragon	det
25	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 slew	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 made	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 made	cc
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 made	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 coachman	det
30	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 coachman	amod
31	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 made	aux
33	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 made	obj
35	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 made	xcomp
36	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 times	nummod
37	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 swear	obl:unmarked
38	to	to	ADP	_	42 false	case
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 false	nsubj
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 false	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 false	cop
42	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 swear	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Princess			then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kneel down	past · perfect · passive		Princess				vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	pray	past	the Princess not said here		the prayer book			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	slay	past	the King's son	the Dragon				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient
5	make	past · perfect · passive		the wicked coachman				tree rules
6	swear	infinitive	the wicked coachman not said here			time		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	that				false property	tree rules

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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