Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 3
So the old man went to the fair and bought a heifer.
Who acts: old man · What happens: go, buy · To what, where: fair, heifer
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. 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), 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 | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 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 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 fair | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fair | det |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bought | cc |
| 10 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 heifer | det |
| 12 | heifer | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bought | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old man | the fair | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | buy | past | the old man not said here | a heifer | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heifer=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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