Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 25
So he had the armless man and the legless man in the wagon brought to him, and said to them, "Do as you are able."
Who acts: Tsar, legless man, ropes · What happens: have, bring, say, do, be · To what, where: armless man, Tsar, ropes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, legless man, ropes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | armless | armless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brought | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | legless | legless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 wagon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wagon | det |
| 13 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | nmod |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 brought | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Do | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Do | punct |
| 24 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 able | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 able | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 able | cop |
| 28 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Do | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 Do | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Tsar | the armless man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the legless man in the wagon | Tsar | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | ropes = rope | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | ropes = rope | able property | tree rules |
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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