The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 4

When their father and mother lay at the point of death, they had thus enjoined their son: ‘Give your sisters in marriage to the very first suitors who come to woo them.

Who acts: father, first suitors · What happens: lay, enjoin, give, come, woo, point · To what, where: point, son, sisters, marriage, death

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, first suitors), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 lay	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 mother	cc
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 father	conj
6	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 enjoined	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 point	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 point	det
9	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 death	case
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 point	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 enjoined	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 enjoined	aux
15	thus	thus	ADV	_	16 enjoined	advmod
16	enjoined	enjoin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 son	nmod:poss
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 enjoined	obj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Give	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 Give	punct
21	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 enjoined	conj
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sisters	nmod:poss
23	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 Give	iobj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 marriage	case
25	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Give	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	30 suitors	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 suitors	det
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 first	advmod
29	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 suitors	amod
30	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 Give	obl
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 come	nsubj
32	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 suitors	acl:relcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 woo	mark
34	woo	woo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 come	xcomp
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 woo	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 enjoined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present	Marya's father and mother			the point of death		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at point=Destination
2	enjoin	past · perfect	father	Marya's son			thus property	tree rules
3	give	infinitive	father not said here		your sisters	marriage	to the first suitors	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Theme to suitor=Recipient
4	come	present	the first suitors					tree rules
5	woo	to-infinitive	the first suitors not said here	sisters = sister				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	point			death				nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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