Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 64

Then he'll go and fetch it, and the wolves will tear his dogs to pieces, and then we can take and do to him as we list, for his strength is in his dogs."

Who acts: serpent, wolves, we, strength · What happens: go, fetch, tear, take, do, list · To what, where: milk, dogs, serpent

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, wolves, we, strength), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 go	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fetch	cc
6	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fetch	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tear	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tear	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wolves	det
11	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tear	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tear	aux
13	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 dogs	nmod:poss
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tear	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 pieces	case
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tear	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 take	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 take	advmod
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 take	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 take	aux
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 do	cc
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 take	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 do	obl
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 list	mark
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 list	nsubj
30	list	list	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 take	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 dogs	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	38 dogs	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 strength	nmod:poss
34	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dogs	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 dogs	cop
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 dogs	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 dogs	nmod:poss
38	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 list	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	future	serpent			then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	infinitive	serpent not said here	milk				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	tear	future	the wolves	serpent's dogs			to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent dog=Patient to piece=Result
4	take	can	we			then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	do	infinitive	we not said here		serpent			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	list	present	we					tree rules
7	is	present	serpent's strength				for serpent's dogs	tree rules

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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