Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 50
So they let the serpent go, first making him promise never to fly to the Tsarivna again, and then each thanked the other for his friendship, and so they parted.
Who acts: waters, serpent, each · What happens: let, go, make, promise, not fly, thank · To what, where: serpent, other · 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 (waters, serpent, each), 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 let | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 serpent | det |
| 5 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 making | punct |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 making | advmod |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 go | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 making | obj |
| 11 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 making | xcomp |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 fly | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fly | mark |
| 14 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 promise | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Tsarivna | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tsarivna | det |
| 17 | Tsarivna | Tsarivna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fly | obl |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 fly | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thanked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 thanked | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 thanked | advmod |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 thanked | nsubj |
| 23 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 other | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 thanked | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 friendship | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 friendship | nmod:poss |
| 28 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thanked | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 parted | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 parted | cc |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 parted | advmod |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 parted | nsubj |
| 33 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | waters = water | the serpent | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | the serpent not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | the serpent not said here | serpent | first property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | infinitive | serpent not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not fly not said to happen | to-infinitive | again | to the Tsarivna result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tsarivna=Result | ||||
| 6 | thank speech: thank | past | each | the other | then | for serpent's friendship | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent other=Theme for friendship=Attribute | ||
| 7 | part | past | waters = water | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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