Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 52
After dinner the serpent said to him, in the presence of all the guests, "Well, prince, now that thou hast dined and rested, to thy tasks again!
Who acts: serpent, thy · What happens: say, dine, rest, task · To what, where: Ivan, thou · 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, thy), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 dinner | case |
| 2 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 serpent | det |
| 4 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 presence | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 presence | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 presence | det |
| 11 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 guests | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 guests | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 guests | det |
| 15 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 presence | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 prince | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 prince | punct |
| 18 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 20 prince | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Well | punct |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 presence | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dined | punct |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 dined | advmod |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 dined | mark |
| 24 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 dined | nsubj |
| 25 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 dined | aux:pass |
| 26 | dined | dine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 rested | cc |
| 28 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 dined | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 tasks | punct |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 tasks | case |
| 31 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 tasks | nmod:poss |
| 32 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 rested | obl |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 32 tasks | advmod |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the serpent | Ivan | after dinner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | dine in a quote | present · passive | thou | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rest in a quote | participle | to thy tasks | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | task in a quote | thy | nom task «act transitive»: poss=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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