Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 71

They remained outside a long time, and then the serpent came in again, and said to the prince, "There is no time for anything more to-day, but we'll begin again early to-morrow morning.

Who acts: ears, serpent, time, we · What happens: remain, come in, say, be, begin · To what, where: prince · 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 (ears, serpent, time, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remained	nsubj
2	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	outside	outside	ADP	_	6 time	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remained	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 came	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 serpent	det
11	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remained	conj
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remained	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 prince	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 prince	det
20	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 is	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 is	punct
23	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 is	expl
24	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 begin	advcl
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 time	det
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 is	nsubj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 anything	case
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 time	nmod
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 anything	amod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 day	case
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 to	punct
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 more	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 begin	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 begin	cc
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 begin	nsubj
36	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 begin	aux
37	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
38	again	again	ADV	_	37 begin	advmod
39	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 begin	advmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	43 morning	case
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 to	punct
42	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 morning	compound
43	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 early	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	ears = ear			time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come in	past	the serpent			then; again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	ears = ear not said here	the prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient clause=Topic
4	be in a quote	present	no time for anything		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin in a quote	future	we			again	early property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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