Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 14

The labourer obeyed, and went and worked for his master as the Serpent had told him.

Who acts: labourer, Serpent · What happens: obey, go, work, tell · To what, where: corn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (labourer, Serpent), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 labourer	det
2	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obeyed	nsubj
3	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 obeyed	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 worked	cc
8	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 master	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 master	nmod:poss
11	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 worked	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 told	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Serpent	det
14	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	aux
16	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 worked	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	obey	past	the labourer			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	the labourer not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	work	past	the labourer not said here		for corn's master	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for master=Beneficiary
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	the Serpent	corn		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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