Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 56

Then the wise brothers said, "Let us climb up to the top of this oak and pass the night there, and then robbers will not fall upon us."--"But what will this silly donkey do with his millstone?" asked one of them.--"You look to yourselves," said Ivan, "for I mean to pass the night in this tree also."

Who acts: wise brothers, us, robbers, millstone, You, Ivan · What happens: say, let, climb up, pass, not fall, ask · To what, where: us, top, one, yourselves, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise brothers, us, robbers, millstone), 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	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brothers	amod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Let	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Let	punct
8	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 Let	obj
10	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Let	xcomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 climb	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 top	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 top	det
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 climb	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 oak	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 oak	det
17	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 top	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pass	cc
19	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 climb	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pass	obj
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 pass	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fall	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fall	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 robbers	advmod
26	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fall	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 fall	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 fall	advmod
29	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 us	case
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 fall	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 fall	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 fall	punct
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 millstone	punct
36	But	but	CCONJ	_	45 millstone	cc
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	45 millstone	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 millstone	aux
39	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 donkey	det
40	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 donkey	amod
41	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 millstone	nsubj
42	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 millstone	aux
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 millstone	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 millstone	nmod:poss
45	millstone	millstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 asked	nsubj
46	?	?	PUNCT	_	45 millstone	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 millstone	punct
48	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
49	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 asked	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 them	case
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 one	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
53	--	--	PUNCT	_	56 look	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	56 look	punct
55	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 look	nsubj
56	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 said	ccomp
57	to	to	ADP	_	58 yourselves	case
58	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	56 look	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 look	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	56 look	punct
61	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
62	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 said	nsubj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 mean	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	67 mean	punct
65	for	for	SCONJ	_	67 mean	mark
66	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	67 mean	nsubj
67	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 said	conj
68	to	to	PART	_	69 pass	mark
69	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	67 mean	xcomp
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 night	det
71	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 pass	obj
72	in	in	ADP	_	74 tree	case
73	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	74 tree	det
74	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 pass	obl
75	also	also	ADV	_	69 pass	advmod
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	61 said	punct
77	"	"	PUNCT	_	61 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wise brothers				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive		us					tree rules
3	climb up in a quote	infinitive	us not said here			the top of this oak			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination
4	pass in a quote	infinitive	us not said here			there	night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not fall in a quote	future	robbers					upon us	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon we=Location
6	ask speech: ask	past	donkey's millstone	one of brothers					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
7	look in a quote	present	You		yourselves				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to yourselves=Theme
8	say speech: assert	past	Ivan						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	mean in a quote	present	Ivan						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	pass not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here			this tree	night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

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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