Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 38

"Catch hold of me," said the serpent, "and I'll take you, only torture me no more."

Who acts: serpent · What happens: catch, say, take, torture, hold · To what, where: hold, you, serpent, me · 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 (serpent), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Catch	punct
2	Catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Catch	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hold	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Catch	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Catch	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 serpent	det
10	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 take	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 take	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 take	aux
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 take	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 torture	punct
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 torture	advmod
20	torture	torture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 take	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 torture	obj
22	no	no	ADV	_	23 more	advmod
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 torture	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	catch in a quote	infinitive		hold of me		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the serpent			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take in a quote	future	the serpent = serpent		you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
4	torture in a quote	infinitive	the serpent = serpent not said here	the serpent = serpent		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer more=Result
5	hold in a quote			me		nom hold «act 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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