Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 65

The prince thereupon asked Ivan Golik how he had got his legs back again, for the princess had told him how she had cut Ivan Golik in two.

Who acts: prince, princess · What happens: ask, get, tell, cut · To what, where: Ivan, legs, princess, prince, two · 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 (prince, princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
3	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	4 asked	advmod
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asked	iobj
6	Golik	Golik	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ivan	flat
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 got	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 got	aux
10	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 asked	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 legs	nmod:poss
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	14 again	advmod
14	again	again	ADV	_	10 got	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 told	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 princess	det
18	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 told	aux
20	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 got	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 cut	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cut	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cut	aux
25	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 told	ccomp
26	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 cut	obj
27	Golik	Golik	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Ivan	flat
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 two	case
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 cut	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the prince		Ivan			thereupon property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ivan=Recipient
2	get	past · perfect	prince	prince's legs			again		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the princess	prince				tree rules
4	cut	past · perfect	princess	Ivan		two			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivan=Product

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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