Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 162

He came, and the foal said to him, "Take off the night-dresses of the forty sleeping bridegrooms and put them on the forty sleeping brides, and put the night-dresses of the brides on the bridegrooms, for a great woe is nigh!"

Who acts: foal, great woe · What happens: come, say, take off, put, be · To what, where: brother, night dresses, dresses · 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 (foal, great woe), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 foal	det
6	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Take	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Take	punct
12	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 Take	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dresses	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dresses	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 night	punct
17	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Take	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 bridegrooms	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bridegrooms	det
20	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 bridegrooms	nummod
21	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bridegrooms	compound
22	bridegrooms	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 dresses	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
24	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Take	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	30 brides	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 brides	det
28	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 brides	nummod
29	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brides	compound
30	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 put	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 put	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 put	cc
33	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Take	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dresses	det
35	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 dresses	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 night	punct
37	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 put	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 brides	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 brides	det
40	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 dresses	nmod
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 bridegrooms	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 bridegrooms	det
43	bridegrooms	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 brides	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 nigh	punct
45	for	for	SCONJ	_	50 nigh	mark
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 woe	det
47	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 woe	amod
48	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 nigh	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 nigh	cop
50	nigh	nigh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 put	parataxis
51	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	foal				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the foal		brother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	take off in a quote	infinitive		the night dresses of the forty sleeping bridegrooms			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
4	put in a quote	infinitive		dresses = dress		on the forty sleeping brides	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on bride=Destination
5	put in a quote	infinitive		the night dresses of the brides on the bridegrooms			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dress=Goal
6	is in a quote	present	a great woe			nigh 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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