Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 100

He lost no time in taking the horse to the fair, and offered it for sale, and among those who saw it was the Tsar himself. "

Who acts: innkeeper, time, fair · What happens: lose, take, offer, see, be · To what, where: horse, fair, Tsar

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (innkeeper, time, fair), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 taking	mark
6	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 time	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taking	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 fair	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fair	det
11	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 offered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 offered	cc
14	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 offered	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 sale	case
17	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 offered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
20	among	among	ADP	_	21 those	case
21	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 saw	obl
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 Tsar	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 Tsar	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Tsar	det
27	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obj
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 Tsar	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lost	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	innkeeper			time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	gerund	no time not said here	the horse	the fair			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to fair=Destination
3	offer	past	innkeeper not said here	fair			for sale goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme for sale=Goal
4	see	past					among those	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	fair	the Tsar			innkeeper nmod	tree rules

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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