Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 127
Then Ivan bade them be quite sure that there was not a single grain remaining in a single ear of corn.
Who acts: Ivan, single grain · What happens: bade, be, remain · To what, where: mice, single ear
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 (Ivan, single grain), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bade | advmod |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bade | nsubj |
| 3 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | obj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sure | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 sure | advmod |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bade | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 was | mark |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 grain | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 grain | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grain | amod |
| 14 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 15 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 grain | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 ear | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ear | det |
| 18 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ear | amod |
| 19 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remaining | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 corn | case |
| 21 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ear | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Ivan | mice = mouse | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | infinitive | Ivan not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | past | a single grain | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | remain | gerund | a single grain not said here | a single ear of corn | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=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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