Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 191

But one day the Tsar said to his servants, "Boil me now a vat of milk!"

Who acts: Tsar · What happens: say, boil · To what, where: servants, vat, Tsar · 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 (Tsar), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Tsar	det
5	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 servants	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 servants	nmod:poss
9	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Boil	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Boil	punct
12	Boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Boil	obj
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 Boil	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 vat	det
16	vat	vat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Boil	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 milk	case
18	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 vat	nmod
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 Boil	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Boil	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	the Tsar		brother's servants		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient clause=Topic
2	boil in a quote	infinitive		a vat of milk	the Tsar = tsar		now		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary vat=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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