Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 42

Hold the serpent tight with your legs while I thrust a dry stick into the spring, and then we shall see whether it really is healing water."

Who acts: you, I, we, stick · What happens: hold, thrust, see, heal · To what, where: serpent, dry stick, water · 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 (you, I, we, stick), 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	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpent	det
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obj
4	tight	tight	ADV	_	1 Hold	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 legs	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 legs	nmod:poss
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hold	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 thrust	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 thrust	nsubj
10	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stick	det
12	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stick	amod
13	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thrust	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 spring	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 spring	det
16	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thrust	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 see	advmod
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hold	conj
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	27 healing	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 healing	nsubj
25	really	really	ADV	_	27 healing	advmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 healing	aux
27	healing	heal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 see	ccomp
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 healing	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	the serpent		with your legs; tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme
2	thrust	past	I	a dry stick	spring		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
3	see	shall	we		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	heal	present · progressive	stick	water			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=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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