Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 139

So he remained there half a year, and then bethought him of taking to himself a wife.

Who acts: damsel · What happens: remain, bethink, take · To what, where: damsel, wife

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damsel), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 remained	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 remained	nsubj
3	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 remained	advmod
5	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 year	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remained	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bethought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bethought	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 bethought	advmod
11	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remained	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bethought	obj
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 taking	mark
14	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 bethought	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 taking	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wife	det
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taking	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	remain	past	damsel			there	year	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bethink	past	damsel not said here	damsel			then	tree rules
3	take	gerund	damsel not said here	a wife	damsel			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Theme to himself=Destination

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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