Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 22

His master gave him a place where he might build his hut, and his wife helped him so much with the building of it that it seemed to him as if he himself never laid a hand to it.

Who acts: master, Serpent, wife, it · What happens: give, build, help, seem, not lay · To what, where: place, Serpent, hut, hand

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, wife, it), 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	2 master	nmod:poss
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 build	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 build	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 build	aux
10	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 place	acl:relcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hut	nmod:poss
12	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 build	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 helped	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 helped	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 helped	nsubj
17	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 helped	obj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	17 helped	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 building	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 building	det
23	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 helped	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 building	nmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 seemed	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seemed	nsubj
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 helped	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seemed	obl
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 laid	mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 laid	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 laid	nsubj
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	33 he	nmod:unmarked
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 laid	advmod
36	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 seemed	advcl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 hand	det
38	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 laid	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 laid	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	Serpent's master	a place	Serpent		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient place=Theme
2	build	might	Serpent	Serpent's hut			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Product
3	help	past	Serpent's wife		Serpent	with the building of hut	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary with building=Theme
4	seem	past	it		Serpent		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	not lay	past	Serpent	a hand	hut		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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