Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 13

His father wouldn't give him a gun, so he took it, and went to watch.

Who acts: father · What happens: not give, take, go, watch · To what, where: gun, fool

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 give	advmod
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gun	det
8	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 took	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	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	12 took	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 watch	mark
18	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 went	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not give	would	fool's father	a gun	fool	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient gun=Theme
2	take	past	father	gun		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	go	past	father not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	watch	to-infinitive	father not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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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