Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 58

And the old man sold the sheep and oxen and got so rich that he needed nothing more.

Who acts: old man, last · What happens: sell, get, need · To what, where: sheep, nothing

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, last), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 sold	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sold	nsubj
5	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sheep	det
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sold	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 oxen	cc
9	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sheep	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 got	cc
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sold	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 rich	advmod
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 got	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 needed	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 needed	nsubj
16	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rich	advcl
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 needed	obj
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 needed	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sell	past	the old man	the sheep and oxen		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
2	get	past	the old man not said here		rich property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	need	past	last	nothing		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=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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