Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 13

Then said Ivan Golik, "The serpent lies.

Who acts: Ivan, serpent · What happens: say, lie · 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 (Ivan, serpent), 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	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	Golik	Golik	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Ivan	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lies	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 lies	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 serpent	det
8	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lies	nsubj
9	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ivan				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	lie in a quote	present	the serpent						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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