Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 110
When the serpent brings out his daughters, let the prince keep his eyes open, for I will fly on her head.
Who acts: serpent, you, prince, I · What happens: bring out, let, keep, fly · To what, where: daughters, prince, eyes, head
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, you, prince, I), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 brings | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 serpent | det |
| 3 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brings | nsubj |
| 4 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 brings | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brings | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brings | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | obj |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 keep | obj |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 keep | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fly | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 fly | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 fly | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 fly | aux |
| 20 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fly | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring out | present | the serpent | serpent's daughters | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | the prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | the prince not said here | serpent's eyes | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 4 | fly | future | I | mare's head | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on head=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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