Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 107

Now the serpent had twenty-one daughters, and he brought them to the prince, and told him which was the eldest, and which the next eldest, down to the very last one.

Who acts: serpent, Prince · What happens: have, bring, tell, be · To what, where: one daughters, daughters, prince · 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 (serpent, Prince), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpent	det
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 one	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 twenty	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 daughters	nummod
8	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 brought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 brought	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	nsubj
12	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 prince	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 prince	det
16	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 eldest	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 eldest	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 eldest	det
24	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 told	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eldest	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 eldest	cc
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 eldest	nsubj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 eldest	det
29	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 eldest	amod
30	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 eldest	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 one	punct
32	down	down	ADV	_	37 one	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	37 one	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 one	det
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 last	advmod
36	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 one	amod
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eldest	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the serpent	one daughters		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	bring	past	Prince	daughters = daughter	the prince			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to prince=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	past	the serpent not said here		Prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	past					eld 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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