Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 6

And the Serpent began to tell the man what he had to do. "

Who acts: Serpent, man · What happens: begin, tell, have, do · To what, where: man · 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, man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 began	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Serpent	det
3	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 had	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	begin	past	the Serpent			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the Serpent not said here		the man	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
3	have	past	Serpent	the man		tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	the man not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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