Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 197

And when they came to the sea the horse said, "Now lay upon me the hides and the tar and the flax, and lay them in this order--first a hide, and then a pood of tar, and then a pood of flax, and so on, laying them thus till they are all laid."

Who acts: TREMSIN, horse · What happens: come, say, lie, lay · To what, where: sea, hides, TREMSIN, order · 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 (TREMSIN, horse), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lay	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 lay	punct
13	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 lay	advmod
14	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 lay	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hides	det
18	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lay	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tar	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tar	det
21	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hides	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flax	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 flax	det
24	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tar	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lay	cc
27	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lay	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 order	case
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 order	det
31	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 hide	punct
33	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 hide	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 hide	det
35	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 pood	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 pood	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 pood	advmod
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 pood	det
40	pood	pood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	parataxis
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 tar	case
42	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pood	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 pood	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 pood	cc
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 pood	advmod
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 pood	det
47	pood	pood	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pood	conj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 flax	case
49	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 pood	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 on	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 on	cc
52	so	so	ADV	_	53 on	advmod
53	on	on	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 laying	punct
55	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 laying	obj
57	thus	thus	ADV	_	55 laying	advmod
58	till	till	SCONJ	_	62 laid	mark
59	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 laid	nsubj
60	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	62 laid	aux:pass
61	all	all	ADV	_	62 laid	advmod
62	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 laying	advcl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	TREMSIN		the sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the horse					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lie in a quote	past		the hides and the tar and the flax		now	upon the horse = horse	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hide=Theme
4	lay in a quote	infinitive	the horse not said here	TREMSIN	this order			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in order=Destination
5	lay in a quote	gerund	the horse not said here	TREMSIN			thus property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result
6	lay in a quote	present · passive		TREMSIN			all property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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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