Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 106

Then they sat down and ate, and when the meal was over the serpent said, "Well, prince, after dinner I'll bring all my daughters into the courtyard, and if you can find out the youngest, you may be happy together."

Who acts: daughters, meal, serpent, you · What happens: sit down, eat, be, say, bring, find out · To what, where: serpent, daughters, courtyard, youngest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, meal, serpent, you), 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 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ate	cc
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 serpent	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meal	det
11	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 serpent	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 serpent	cop
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 serpent	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 serpent	det
15	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Well	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Well	punct
19	Well	well	INTJ	_	21 prince	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Well	punct
21	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bring	punct
23	after	after	ADP	_	24 dinner	case
24	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bring	obl
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 bring	nsubj
26	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 bring	aux
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	conj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 daughters	det:predet
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 daughters	nmod:poss
30	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 bring	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 courtyard	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 courtyard	det
33	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bring	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 find	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 find	cc
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 find	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 find	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 find	aux
39	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	conj
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 find	compound:prt
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 youngest	det
42	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 find	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 happy	punct
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 happy	nsubj
45	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 happy	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 happy	cop
47	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	parataxis
48	together	together	ADV	_	47 happy	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	daughters = daughter			then		tree rules
2	eat	past	daughters = daughter not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the meal		the serpent			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the serpent					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	bring in a quote	future	the serpent = serpent	my daughters	the courtyard	after dinner		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme into courtyard=Destination
6	find out a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you	the youngest				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Topic
7	is in a quote	may	you				happy, together 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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