Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 59

So all the people immediately sent and told the Tsar, "A stranger has come hither who says he is ready to meet and slay the dragon."

Who acts: people, stranger, Tsar · What happens: send, tell, come, say, be, meet · To what, where: Tsar, dragon · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, stranger, Tsar), 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	_	6 sent	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 people	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sent	nsubj
5	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	6 sent	advmod
6	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tsar	det
10	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
13	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stranger	det
14	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 told	parataxis
17	hither	hither	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 says	nsubj
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 come	parataxis
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ready	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 ready	cop
22	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 says	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 meet	mark
24	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ready	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 slay	cc
26	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 meet	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dragon	det
28	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slay	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	all people			immediately property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	all people not said here		the Tsar		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent tsar=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	present · perfect	a stranger			hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	Tsar			ready property	tree rules
6	meet in a quote	to-infinitive	Tsar not said here				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	slay in a quote	infinitive	Tsar not said here	the dragon			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=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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