Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 103

As they drew nigh, deadly fear oppressed the heart of the prince, and he said to Ivan, "Mark me, Ivan! those pillars yonder are meant for _our_ heads!"--"That remains to be seen," replied Ivan Golik.

Who acts: palaces, deadly fear, fear, That, Ivan · What happens: draw, oppress, say, mark, mean, remain · To what, where: heart, Ivan, fear, pillars · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palaces, deadly fear, fear, That), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 drew	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 oppressed	advcl
4	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct
6	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fear	amod
7	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oppressed	nsubj
8	oppressed	oppress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heart	det
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oppressed	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 prince	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heart	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 oppressed	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Ivan	case
19	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Mark	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Mark	punct
22	Mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 Mark	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Ivan	punct
25	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Mark	vocative
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 meant	punct
27	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 pillars	det
28	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 meant	nsubj:pass
29	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	31 meant	advmod
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 meant	aux:pass
31	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Mark	advcl
32	for	for	ADP	_	36 heads	case
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 for	punct
34	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 heads	nmod:poss
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 heads	punct
36	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 meant	obl
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 meant	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Mark	punct
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 remains	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 remains	punct
41	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 remains	nsubj
42	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	45 seen	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 seen	aux:pass
45	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 remains	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 replied	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 replied	punct
48	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 remains	parataxis
49	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 replied	obj
50	Golik	Golik	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Ivan	flat
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 oppressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	draw	past	palaces = palace			nigh property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	oppress	past	deadly fear	the heart of the prince			tree rules
3	say speech: express	past	fear		Ivan		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ivan=Recipient clause=Topic
4	mark in a quote	infinitive		fear		Ivan vocative	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	mean in a quote	present · passive		that pillars		for our heads; yonder property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for head=Attribute
6	remain in a quote	present	That				tree rules
7	see in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	That not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
8	reply speech: assert	past	Ivan				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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