Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 31

So he listened to them and went, and the Tsar gave him a place at his court.

Who acts: God, Tsar · What happens: listen, go, give · To what, where: people, place, God, court

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 (God, Tsar), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 listened	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 listened	nsubj
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 listened	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Tsar	det
11	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 place	det
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 court	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 court	nmod:poss
18	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	listen	past	God		people		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme
2	go	past	God not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	the Tsar	a place	God	God's court	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient place=Theme at court=Asset

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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