Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 166

So they bethought them, and then they went to the nobleman and said, "Tremsin says that to get the Bird Zhar was nothing, and that he is also able to get the thrice-lovely Nastasia of the sea."

Who acts: servants, Tremsin, Bird Zhar, nobleman · What happens: bethink, go, say, get, be · To what, where: TREMSIN, nobleman, that, nothing, lovely Nastasia · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, Tremsin, Bird Zhar, nobleman), 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	_	3 bethought	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bethought	nsubj
3	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bethought	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 went	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bethought	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 nobleman	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nobleman	det
12	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
17	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 says	nsubj
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 says	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 get	mark
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 says	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Zhar	det
23	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Zhar	compound
24	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 nothing	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 nothing	cop
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 get	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 able	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 able	cc
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 able	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 able	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 able	cop
32	also	also	ADV	_	33 able	advmod
33	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bethought	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 get	mark
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 able	xcomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Nastasia	det
37	thrice	thrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lovely	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 thrice	punct
39	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 Nastasia	amod
40	Nastasia	Nastasia	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 get	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 sea	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sea	det
43	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 Nastasia	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bethought	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 bethought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bethink	past	servants = servant	TREMSIN				tree rules
2	go	past	servants = servant		the nobleman	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nobleman=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	servants = servant not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Tremsin	that				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
5	get in a quote	to-infinitive	Tremsin not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a in a quote	past	the Bird Zhar	nothing				tree rules
7	is in a quote	present	nobleman				able property	tree rules
8	get in a quote	to-infinitive	nobleman not said here	the lovely Nastasia of the sea				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nastasia=Stimulus

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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