Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 144

The son looked upon the father, burst into tears, and led him to his cottage; and for three days the old man remained without speaking, unable to make use of his tongue.

Who acts: son, old man · What happens: look, burst, lead, remain, speak, make · To what, where: tears, father, cottage, use, tongue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, old 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 father	det
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 burst	punct
8	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 tears	case
10	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 burst	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 led	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 led	cc
13	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 led	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 cottage	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 cottage	nmod:poss
17	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 led	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 remained	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 remained	cc
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 days	case
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 days	nummod
22	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 remained	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 remained	nsubj
26	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
27	without	without	SCONJ	_	28 speaking	mark
28	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 remained	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 unable	punct
30	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 speaking	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 make	mark
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 unable	xcomp
33	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 make	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 tongue	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 tongue	nmod:poss
36	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 use	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the son				upon the father	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon father=Theme
2	burst	past	the son not said here		tears			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lead	past	the son not said here	father	father's cottage			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to cottage=Destination
4	remain	past	the old man			day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	speak speech: other	gerund	the old man not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	use of father's tongue				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product
7	use			father's tongue				nom use «act 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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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