Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 121

"Why should I not whistle, seeing that the serpent has bidden us thresh out his barn by the morning light, so that straw lies by straw, chaff by chaff, and grain by grain?"

Who acts: serpent, straw · What happens: not whistle, see, bid, thresh out, lie · To what, where: grain, serpent, us, barn · 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, straw), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 whistle	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 whistle	advmod
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 whistle	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 whistle	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 whistle	advmod
6	whistle	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seeing	punct
8	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 whistle	advcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 bidden	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 serpent	det
11	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bidden	nsubj:pass
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bidden	aux
13	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 seeing	ccomp
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 bidden	iobj
15	thresh	thresh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 bidden	xcomp
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 thresh	compound:prt
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 barn	nmod:poss
18	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thresh	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 light	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 light	det
21	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 light	compound
22	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thresh	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lies	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 lies	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lies	nsubj
27	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 thresh	parataxis
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 straw	case
29	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lies	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 chaff	punct
31	chaff	chaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 straw	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 chaff	case
33	chaff	chaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lies	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 grain	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 grain	cc
36	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 whistle	obl
37	by	by	ADP	_	38 grain	case
38	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 grain	nmod
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 whistle	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 whistle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not whistle in a quote	should	the serpent = serpent	grain by grain			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see in a quote	gerund	the serpent = serpent not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	bid in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the serpent	us		tree rules
4	thresh out in a quote	infinitive		Golik's barn		by the morning light	tree rules
5	lie in a quote	present	straw			by straw and chaff; by chaff	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by straw=Location

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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