Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 38

Then he reflected what a good wife he had had, and how she herself had sought him out, and how she had waited upon him continually and done him boundless good, and yet he had not been able to refrain his tongue, so that now, maybe, he would be without a wife for the rest of his days.

Who acts: Serpent, wife · What happens: reflect, have, seek out, wait, do, not be · To what, where: good wife, wife, Serpent, tongue

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 reflected	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reflected	nsubj
3	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 reflected	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wife	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wife	amod
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nsubj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	aux
10	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 wife	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sought	cc
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 sought	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sought	nsubj:pass
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 she	conj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sought	aux
17	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reflected	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sought	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	17 sought	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 waited	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 waited	cc
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 waited	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 waited	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 waited	aux
25	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 sought	conj
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 waited	obl
28	continually	continually	ADV	_	25 waited	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 done	cc
30	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 waited	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 done	obj
32	boundless	boundless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 good	amod
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 done	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 able	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 able	cc
36	yet	yet	ADV	_	41 able	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 able	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 able	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 able	advmod
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 able	cop
41	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reflected	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 refrain	mark
43	refrain	refrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 able	xcomp
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 tongue	nmod:poss
45	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 refrain	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 so	punct
47	so	so	SCONJ	_	3 reflected	conj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 so	fixed
49	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 so	fixed
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 maybe	punct
51	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	49 now	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 wife	punct
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 wife	nsubj
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 wife	aux
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 wife	cop
56	without	without	ADP	_	58 wife	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 wife	det
58	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 maybe	obl
59	for	for	ADP	_	61 rest	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 rest	det
61	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 wife	nmod
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 days	case
63	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 days	nmod:poss
64	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 rest	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reflected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	past	Serpent		then		tree rules
2	have	past · perfect	Serpent	a good wife not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
3	seek out	past · perfect · passive		wife			tree rules
4	wait	past · perfect	wife			upon Serpent; continually property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
5	do	past	wife not said here	Serpent		good property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
6	not is	past · perfect	Serpent		yet	able property	tree rules
7	refrain	to-infinitive	Serpent not said here	Serpent's tongue			tree rules
8	is	would	Serpent			without a wife; for the rest of Serpent's days	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.

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