Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 135

Then the serpent gave the youth a banquet, and they sat down and ate and made merry, and after that he departed to his own tsardom.

Who acts: serpent, men · What happens: give, sit down, eat, make, depart · To what, where: banquet, youth, own tsardom

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, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg29672:1959): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpent	det
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 banquet	det
8	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 sat	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ate	cc
15	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
18	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 made	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 departed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 departed	cc
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 departed	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 departed	nsubj
24	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 tsardom	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 tsardom	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tsardom	amod
28	tsardom	tsardom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 departed	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the serpent	a banquet	the youth		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient banquet=Theme
2	sit down	past	men = man						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	past	men = man not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	men = man not said here					merry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	depart	past	serpent			serpent's own tsardom	after that		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tsardom=Initial_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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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