Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 2

His fellow-servants did all they could to make him come with them, and now and then enticed him into the tavern, but they could never get him to stay there long, and he always wandered away by himself through the woods.

Who acts: fellow servants, gentleman, servants · What happens: do, make, come, entice, not get, stay · To what, where: all, gentleman, tavern, woods

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 (fellow servants, gentleman, servants), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 servants	nmod:poss
2	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 servants	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 fellow	punct
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 did	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 could	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 all	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 did	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 make	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 enticed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 enticed	cc
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 enticed	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 enticed	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 enticed	advmod
20	enticed	entice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 enticed	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 tavern	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tavern	det
24	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 enticed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 get	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 get	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 get	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 get	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 get	advmod
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 enticed	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 get	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 stay	mark
33	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 get	xcomp
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 stay	advmod
35	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 stay	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 wandered	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 wandered	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 wandered	nsubj
39	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	40 wandered	advmod
40	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
41	away	away	ADV	_	40 wandered	advmod
42	by	by	ADP	_	43 himself	case
43	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 wandered	obl
44	through	through	ADP	_	46 woods	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 woods	det
46	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 wandered	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	gentleman's fellow servants	all				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
2	make	to-infinitive	gentleman's fellow servants not said here	gentleman				tree rules
3	come	infinitive	gentleman not said here				with servants = servant	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	entice	past		gentleman		now; then	into the tavern result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Patient into tavern=Result
5	not get	could	servants = servant	gentleman				tree rules
6	stay	to-infinitive	gentleman not said here		there		long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	wander away	past	gentleman		the woods		by gentleman; always, away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory

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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