Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 57

"Simpleton!" cried Ivan Golik, "when they bring forth this bow, look at it, and say to the serpent, 'I should be ashamed to bend a bow that the least of my servants can bend!'

Who acts: Simpleton, pounds · What happens: cry, bring, look, say, be, bend · To what, where: Ivan, bow, serpent, least · 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 (Simpleton, pounds), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Simpleton	punct
2	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Simpleton	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Simpleton	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
7	Golik	Golik	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ivan	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 bring	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bring	nsubj
12	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 look	advcl
13	forth	forth	ADV	_	12 bring	advmod
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 bow	det
15	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bring	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bring	punct
17	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	parataxis
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 look	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 say	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 say	cc
22	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 look	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 serpent	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 serpent	det
25	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ashamed	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 ashamed	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 ashamed	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 ashamed	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 ashamed	cop
31	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 say	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 bend	mark
33	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 ashamed	xcomp
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bow	det
35	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bend	obj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 bend	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 least	det
38	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	43 bend	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 servants	case
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 servants	nmod:poss
41	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 least	obl
42	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 bend	aux
43	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 bend	advcl
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Simpleton	Ivan			tree rules
2	bring in a quote	present	pounds = pound	this bow		forth property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bow=Theme
3	look in a quote	infinitive				at bow	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
4	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			the serpent		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to serpent=Recipient
5	is in a quote	should	Simpleton			ashamed property	tree rules
6	bend in a quote	to-infinitive	Simpleton not said here	a bow			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent bow=Material
7	bend in a quote	can	Simpleton not said here	the least			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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