Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 44

Very good!" said he, "but now let us go to dinner, for my guests are many, and we have been waiting for thee this long time."

Who acts: serpent, us, we · What happens: say, let, go, be, wait · To what, where: us, dinner · 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 (serpent, us, we), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 good	advmod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 good	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 good	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 good	conj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 good	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 good	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 let	advmod
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 good	conj
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 dinner	case
15	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 many	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 guests	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 guests	nmod:poss
19	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 many	obl
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 many	cop
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 let	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 waiting	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 waiting	cc
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 waiting	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 waiting	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 waiting	aux
27	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 many	parataxis
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 thee	case
29	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 waiting	obl
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 time	det
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 time	amod
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 waiting	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 good	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	serpent					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	let	infinitive		us		now		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	us not said here		dinner			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial_Location
4	is	present					for my guests; many property	tree rules
5	wait	present · perfect · progressive	we			time	for thee	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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