Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 64

Then the serpent looked at the prince's servants one after the other, and said, "Well, let them try!"

Who acts: serpent, servants · What happens: look, say, let, try · To what, where: one, servants · 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, servants), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 looked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpent	det
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	9 servants	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 servants	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 prince	case
9	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	obl
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 looked	obl
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 other	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 other	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
19	Well	well	INTJ	_	21 let	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Well	punct
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the serpent	one after the other	then	at the prince's servants	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at servant=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the serpent not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let in a quote	infinitive		servants = servant			tree rules
4	try in a quote	infinitive	servants = servant not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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