Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 63

So the serpent said to her, "Take to thy bed and pretend to be ill, and say to him, 'I dreamed a dream, dear brother, and lo, I saw thee go and fetch me wolf's milk to make me well.'

Who acts: serpent, thee · What happens: say, take, pretend, be, dream, see · To what, where: custom, serpent, dream, thee, milk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent, thee), 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	_	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpent	det
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Take	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Take	punct
9	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 bed	case
11	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 bed	nmod:poss
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Take	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pretend	cc
14	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Take	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 ill	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 ill	cop
17	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pretend	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 say	cc
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Take	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 say	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dreamed	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 dreamed	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 dreamed	nsubj
26	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dream	det
28	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dreamed	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 brother	punct
30	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 brother	amod
31	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dream	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 saw	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 saw	cc
34	lo	lo	INTJ	_	37 saw	discourse
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lo	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 saw	nsubj
37	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
38	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 saw	obj
39	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 saw	xcomp
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 fetch	cc
41	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	39 go	conj
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 fetch	obj
43	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 milk	nmod:poss
44	's	's	PART	_	43 wolf	case
45	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fetch	obj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 make	mark
47	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 fetch	advcl
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 make	obj
49	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 make	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
51	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the serpent		custom		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	infinitive				to thy bed result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result
3	pretend in a quote	infinitive					tree rules
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive				ill property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			serpent		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
6	dream in a quote	past	the serpent = serpent	a dream and dear brother			vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic
7	see in a quote	past	the serpent = serpent	thee			tree rules
8	go in a quote	infinitive	thee not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	fetch in a quote	infinitive	thee not said here	wolf's milk	the serpent = serpent		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary milk=Theme
10	make in a quote	to-infinitive	thee not said here	the serpent = serpent		well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=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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