Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 37

He called this to mind now, but it was already too late; what he had said could not be unsaid.

Who acts: Serpent, name · What happens: call, mind, be, say, not unsay · To what, where: this · 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, name), 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 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 called	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 mind	mark
5	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	advcl
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 mind	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 late	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 late	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 late	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 late	cop
11	already	already	ADV	_	13 late	advmod
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 late	advmod
13	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 called	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 unsaid	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 unsaid	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	aux
18	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 unsaid	advcl
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 unsaid	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 unsaid	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 unsaid	aux:pass
22	unsaid	unsay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 called	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	Serpent	this			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient
2	mind	to-infinitive	Serpent not said here		now		vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	name			late property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect	Serpent				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not unsay	could · passive	Serpent not said here				tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/9/37/