Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 59
With that the prince went straight off to the serpent again, and the serpent commanded and they brought the bow, together with an arrow weighing fifty poods.
Who acts: serpent, pounds, arrow · What happens: go, command, bring, weigh · To what, where: serpent, bow, fifty poods · 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, pounds, arrow), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 prince | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 With | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 off | advmod |
| 7 | off | off | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 serpent | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 serpent | det |
| 10 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 commanded | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 commanded | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 serpent | det |
| 15 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 commanded | nsubj |
| 16 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brought | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brought | nsubj |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 commanded | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bow | det |
| 21 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 together | punct |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 brought | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 arrow | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 arrow | det |
| 26 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obl |
| 27 | weighing | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 arrow | acl |
| 28 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 poods | nummod |
| 29 | poods | pood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 weighing | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the serpent | again | with the prince; off property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to serpent=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | command | past | the serpent | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | pounds = pound | the bow | with a arrow; together property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | |||
| 4 | weigh | gerund | a arrow not said here | fifty poods | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pood=Value |
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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