Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 19

So his master let him have the sheaf.

Who acts: master, Serpent · What happens: let, have · To what, where: Serpent, sheaf

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 (master, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 let	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 master	nmod:poss
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sheaf	det
8	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	Serpent's master	Serpent					tree rules
2	have	infinitive	Serpent not said here	the sheaf					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheaf=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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