Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 27

He had three fields of standing corn, and when he came home one day his labourers said to him, "Thy corn is not gathered in yet, though it is standing all ripe on its stalks."

Who acts: Serpent, labourers, field · What happens: have, stand, come, say, not gather · To what, where: three fields, Serpent, corn, stalks · 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 (Serpent, labourers, field), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 fields	nummod
4	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 corn	case
6	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 corn	amod
7	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fields	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 came	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	advcl
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 day	nummod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl:unmarked
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 labourers	nmod:poss
17	labourers	labourer	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gathered	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 gathered	punct
23	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 corn	nmod:poss
24	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gathered	nsubj:pass
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 gathered	aux:pass
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 gathered	advmod
27	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 said	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 yet	case
29	yet	yet	ADV	_	27 gathered	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 standing	punct
31	though	though	SCONJ	_	34 standing	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 standing	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 standing	aux
34	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 gathered	advcl
35	all	all	ADV	_	36 ripe	advmod
36	ripe	ripe	ADV	_	34 standing	advmod
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 stalks	case
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 stalks	nmod:poss
39	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 standing	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Serpent	three fields of standing corn					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient
2	stand	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	Serpent				day	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Serpent's labourers		Serpent				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	not gather in a quote	present · passive		Thy corn					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	stand in a quote	present · progressive	field			field's stalks		ripe property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stalk=Location

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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