Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 82
Then the prince bade his servants open his trunk and take out a shirt and pantaloons and all manner of raiment, whereupon the naked man went into the water and washed, and after that he dressed himself.
Who acts: prince, servants, naked man · What happens: bade, open, take out, go, wash, dress · To what, where: trunk, shirt, water, Prince
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 (prince, servants, naked man), 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 | 4 bade | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | nsubj |
| 4 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 servants | nmod:poss |
| 6 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 open | nsubj |
| 7 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bade | ccomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 9 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 open | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 open | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 take | compound:prt |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shirt | det |
| 14 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pantaloons | cc |
| 16 | pantaloons | pantaloon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shirt | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 manner | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 manner | det |
| 19 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shirt | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 raiment | case |
| 21 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 manner | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 23 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 went | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 25 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shirt | parataxis |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 water | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 water | det |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 washed | cc |
| 32 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 went | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 dressed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 dressed | cc |
| 35 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 38 dressed | mark |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 after | fixed |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 dressed | nsubj |
| 38 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bade | conj |
| 39 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 dressed | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | the prince | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | present | Prince's servants | Prince's trunk | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trunk=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take out | infinitive | Prince's servants not said here | a shirt and pantaloons and all manner of raiment | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the naked man | the water | whereupon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | wash | participle | the naked man not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | dress | past | Prince | Prince | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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