Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 80

They went to the houses of all the princes, and all the nobles, and all the rich merchants, but it was of no avail.

Who acts: councillors, house · What happens: go, be · To what, where: rich merchants, houses

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 (councillors, house), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 houses	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 houses	det
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 princes	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 princes	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princes	det
9	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 houses	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nobles	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 nobles	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 nobles	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 nobles	det
14	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 princes	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 merchants	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 merchants	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 merchants	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 merchants	det
19	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 merchants	amod
20	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 avail	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 avail	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 avail	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 avail	cop
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 avail	case
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 avail	det
27	avail	avail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	councillors = councillor	all rich merchants		the houses of all princes and all nobles			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	is	past	house					of no avail	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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