Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 4

But the labourer, who was used to the loneliness of the forest, replied, "Very well, eat me if thou hast a mind to!"--Then the Serpent said, "Nay!

Who acts: labourer, thou, Serpent · What happens: use, reply, eat, have, say · To what, where: labourer, me, mind · 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 (labourer, thou, Serpent), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	21 eat	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 labourer	det
3	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eat	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 used	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 used	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 used	aux:pass
7	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 labourer	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 loneliness	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 loneliness	det
10	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 used	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loneliness	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 replied	punct
15	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 used	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 well	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 well	punct
18	Very	very	ADV	_	19 well	advmod
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 replied	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eat	punct
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 eat	obj
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 hast	mark
24	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 hast	nsubj
25	hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 eat	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mind	det
27	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hast	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	25 hast	xcomp
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 to	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 to	punct
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
32	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 said	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Serpent	det
34	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 eat	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 Nay	punct
38	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	35 said	ccomp
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		the labourer		to the loneliness of the forest	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	reply speech: express	participle				well property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat in a quote	infinitive	the labourer	me			tree rules
4	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	thou	a mind			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	the Serpent		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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