Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 152

When their father was dead, the brothers said to each other, "Let us go to Friday and get married!"--But the eldest brother said, "No, Friday has only forty daughters, so one of us would be left without a bride."--Then the second brother said, "Let us go then to Wednesday--Wednesday has forty-one daughters, and so the whole lot of us can pair off with the whole lot of them."

Who acts: father, brothers, us, eldest brother, Friday, second brother · What happens: be, say, let, go, marry, have · To what, where: each, us, forty daughters, one, one daughters · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (father, brothers, us, eldest brother), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 dead	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	83 pair	csubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brothers	det
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 each	case
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	9 said	obl
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Let	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Let	punct
15	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 Let	obj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Let	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Friday	case
19	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 married	cc
21	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 married	aux:pass
22	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 Let	conj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 married	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 married	punct
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
26	But	but	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 brother	det
28	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 brother	amod
29	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 has	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 has	punct
33	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	36 has	discourse
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 No	punct
35	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 has	nsubj
36	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 said	ccomp
37	only	only	ADV	_	38 forty	advmod
38	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 daughters	nummod
39	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 has	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 left	punct
41	so	so	ADV	_	47 left	advmod
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 left	nsubj:pass
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 us	case
44	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 one	nmod
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 left	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 left	aux:pass
47	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dead	conj
48	without	without	ADP	_	50 bride	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 bride	det
50	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 left	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
53	--	--	PUNCT	_	58 said	punct
54	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	58 said	advmod
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 brother	det
56	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	57 brother	amod
57	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 said	nsubj
58	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 Let	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	61 Let	punct
61	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 said	ccomp
62	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	61 Let	obj
63	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 Let	xcomp
64	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	63 go	advmod
65	to	to	ADP	_	66 Wednesday	case
66	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 then	obl
67	--	--	PUNCT	_	69 has	punct
68	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	69 has	nsubj
69	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 Let	conj
70	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	72 one	compound
71	-	-	PUNCT	_	70 forty	punct
72	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	73 daughters	nummod
73	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 has	obj
74	,	,	PUNCT	_	83 pair	punct
75	and	and	CCONJ	_	83 pair	cc
76	so	so	ADV	_	83 pair	advmod
77	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	79 lot	det
78	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	79 lot	amod
79	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 pair	nsubj
80	of	of	ADP	_	81 us	case
81	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	79 lot	nmod
82	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	83 pair	aux
83	pair	pair	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
84	off	off	ADP	_	83 pair	compound:prt
85	with	with	ADP	_	88 lot	case
86	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	88 lot	det
87	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	88 lot	amod
88	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 pair	obl
89	of	of	ADP	_	90 them	case
90	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	88 lot	nmod
91	.	.	PUNCT	_	83 pair	punct
92	"	"	PUNCT	_	83 pair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cones's father				dead property	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	the brothers		each			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient clause=Topic
3	let in a quote	infinitive		us				tree rules
4	go in a quote	infinitive	us not said here			friday		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	marry in a quote	infinitive · passive						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»
6	say speech: assert	past	the eldest brother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	have in a quote	present	Friday	forty daughters				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
8	leave in a quote	would · passive		one of us			without a bride	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
9	say speech: assert	past	the second brother			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	let in a quote	infinitive		us				tree rules
11	go in a quote	infinitive	us not said here			then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	have in a quote	present	Wednesday	one daughters				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
13	pair off in a quote	can	the whole lot of us				with the whole lot of cones	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with lot=Co-Patient

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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