Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 107
So after dinner the serpent bade his daughters go and dress themselves, but the prince took counsel of Ivan Golik.
Who acts: serpent, daughters, prince · What happens: bade, go, dress, take · To what, where: daughters, counsel
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 (serpent, daughters, prince), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 bade | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 dinner | case |
| 3 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bade | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 serpent | det |
| 5 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bade | nsubj |
| 6 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 8 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 go | nsubj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bade | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dress | cc |
| 11 | dress | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | conj |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 dress | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bade | conj |
| 18 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Ivan | case |
| 20 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 counsel | nmod |
| 21 | Golik | Golik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ivan | flat |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | the serpent | after dinner | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | present | serpent's daughters | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dress | present | serpent's daughters not said here | daughters = daughter | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the prince | counsel of Ivan | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=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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