Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 65

Then the man gathered his faithful dogs around him, mounted his horse, and went back to his own home.

Who acts: man · What happens: gather, mount, go back · To what, where: faithful dogs, horse

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gathered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gathered	nsubj
4	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dogs	nmod:poss
6	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dogs	amod
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gathered	obj
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dogs	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mounted	punct
11	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gathered	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 horse	nmod:poss
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mounted	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gathered	conj
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 home	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 home	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 home	amod
21	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past	the man	man's faithful dogs	then	around dog	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
2	mount	past	the man not said here	dog's horse			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
3	go back	past	the man not said here			to dog's own home result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result

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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