Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 37

They had three sons, two of them with their wits about them, but the third a simpleton.

Who acts: king · What happens: have · To what, where: three sons

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sons	nummod
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 two	punct
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sons	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 two	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 wits	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wits	nmod:poss
11	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 two	nmod
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wits	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 third	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 third	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 third	det
17	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 had	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 simpleton	det
19	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 third	obl:unmarked
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	king	three sons					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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