Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 85

"Be it so!" said the prince, and he bade all his suite obey him.

Who acts: prince, suite · What happens: be, say, bade, obey · To what, where: land, 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 (prince, suite), 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	_	2 Be	punct
2	Be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Be	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	2 Be	advmod
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Be	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Be	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bade	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bade	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bade	nsubj
13	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 suite	det:predet
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 suite	nmod:poss
16	suite	suite	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 obey	nsubj
17	obey	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bade	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 obey	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	be in a quote	infinitive		land	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the prince		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bade	past	Prince		tree rules
4	obey	present	Prince's suite	Prince	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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