Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 80
Then the serpent got up and said, "Well, prince, now let us come down into the courtyard; they'll soon bring out the horse, and we'll see what thou dost make of it."
Who acts: serpent, us, guests, we, thou · What happens: get up, say, let, come down, bring out, see · To what, where: us, courtyard, horse, make · 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, us, guests, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 serpent | det |
| 3 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Well | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Well | punct |
| 10 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 15 let | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Well | punct |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Well | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Well | punct |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 let | advmod |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 courtyard | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 courtyard | det |
| 21 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 bring | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bring | nsubj |
| 24 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 bring | aux |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 bring | advmod |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 bring | compound:prt |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 horse | det |
| 29 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 see | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 see | cc |
| 32 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 see | nsubj |
| 33 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 see | aux |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | parataxis |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 34 see | obj |
| 36 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 dost | nsubj |
| 37 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 what | acl:relcl |
| 38 | make | make | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dost | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 make | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 see | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the serpent | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | 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 | us | now | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come down in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | the courtyard | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | bring out in a quote | future | guests = guest | the horse | soon property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 6 | see in a quote | future | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | do in a quote | present | thou | make of horse | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent make=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | make in a quote | horse | nom make «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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