Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 61

He came to the inn, and there they asked him whence he came.

Who acts: horse, shift · What happens: come, ask · To what, where: inn, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (horse, shift), 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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 inn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 inn	det
5	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 asked	expl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	iobj
12	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	14 came	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	horse		the inn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	shift	horse	there		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come	past	horse			whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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