Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 12

(for without his dogs he must needs be courteous to the serpent) "pray let me climb up that whitethorn-tree, and have a good look about me!"

Who acts: Tsar, dogs · What happens: need, be, pray, let, climb up, have · To what, where: dogs, Tsar, whitethorn tree, good look

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (Tsar, dogs), 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	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 dogs	punct
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 dogs	case
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 dogs	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dogs	nmod:poss
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pray	nsubj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 needs	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 needs	aux
8	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dogs	acl:relcl
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 courteous	cop
10	courteous	courteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 needs	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 serpent	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 serpent	det
13	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 courteous	obl
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 dogs	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 pray	punct
16	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 pray	xcomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 climb	compound:prt
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 tree	det
22	whitethorn	whitethorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tree	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 whitethorn	punct
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 climb	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 have	cc
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 pray	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 look	det
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 look	amod
30	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
31	about	about	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 look	nmod
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 pray	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	must	Tsar	Tsar's dogs not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot dog=Theme
2	is not said to happen	infinitive	Tsar's dogs not said here		to the serpent; courteous property	tree rules
3	pray in a quote	infinitive	Tsar's dogs			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	let in a quote	infinitive	Tsar's dogs not said here	Tsar		tree rules
5	climb up in a quote	infinitive	Tsar not said here	that whitethorn tree		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
6	have in a quote	infinitive	Tsar's dogs not said here	a good look	about Tsar	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=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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