Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 35

Then he called to mind how, once, his wife had said to him, "Beware, for Heaven's sake, of ever calling me a serpent.

Who acts: Serpent, wife · What happens: call, mind, say, beware · To what, where: Serpent, wife · 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, wife), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 mind	mark
5	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	xcomp
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 once	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 how	punct
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 mind	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	aux
13	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 mind	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Beware	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Beware	punct
18	Beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sake	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 sake	case
21	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 sake	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 Heaven	case
23	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Beware	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 calling	punct
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 calling	mark
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 calling	advmod
27	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 Beware	advcl
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 calling	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 serpent	det
30	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 calling	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	Serpent			then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mind	to-infinitive	Serpent not said here				once property	vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect	Serpent's wife		Serpent			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	beware in a quote	infinitive					for Heaven's sake	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	call in a quote	gerund		Serpent's wife = wife		ever		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme serpent=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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