Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 74

Then his lackey crept up to him, unfastened the self-slicing sword from his side, went up to the little Tsar, and said, "Self-slicing sword! slay him!"

Who acts: lackey · What happens: creep up, unfasten, slice, go up, say, slay · To what, where: Tsar, slicing sword, sword · 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 (lackey), 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 crept	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lackey	nmod:poss
3	lackey	lackey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crept	nsubj
4	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 crept	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crept	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 unfastened	punct
9	unfastened	unfasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 crept	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sword	det
11	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slicing	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 self	punct
13	slicing	slice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 sword	amod
14	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 unfastened	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 side	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 side	nmod:poss
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sword	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crept	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 went	compound:prt
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 Tsar	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Tsar	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Tsar	amod
24	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crept	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 slicing	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 slicing	punct
30	Self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 slicing	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Self	punct
32	slicing	slice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 said	ccomp
33	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 slicing	obj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 slay	punct
35	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 slicing	parataxis
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 slay	obj
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 slay	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 slay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	creep up	past	Tsar's lackey		Tsar	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination
2	unfasten	participle	Tsar's lackey not said here	the slicing sword			from Tsar's side	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sword=Patient from side=Co-Patient
3	slice	gerund						vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	go up	past	Tsar's lackey not said here				to the little Tsar	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	say speech: express	past	Tsar's lackey not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	slice in a quote	gerund		sword				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient
7	slay in a quote	infinitive		Tsar				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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