Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 20

One day a nobleman came by that way, and was surprised to see a beautiful elder-bush growing out of the ditch; so he went up to it, cut off a branch, made him a flute out of it, and began playing upon it.

Who acts: nobleman, beautiful elder bush · What happens: come, be, see, grow out, go up, cut off · To what, where: beautiful elder bush, ditch, branch, flute, nobleman

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 (nobleman, beautiful elder bush), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nobleman	det
4	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 surprised	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 surprised	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 surprised	cop
12	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 surprised	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bush	det
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bush	amod
17	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bush	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 elder	punct
19	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obj
20	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 bush	acl
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 ditch	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 ditch	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ditch	det
24	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 growing	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 went	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cut	punct
33	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 went	advcl
34	off	off	ADP	_	33 cut	compound:prt
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 branch	det
36	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cut	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 made	punct
38	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 made	obj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 flute	det
41	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 made	obj
42	out	out	ADP	_	44 it	case
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 it	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 made	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 began	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 began	cc
47	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 made	conj
48	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 began	xcomp
49	upon	upon	ADP	_	50 it	case
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 playing	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a nobleman				day	by that way	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by way=Location
2	is	past	a nobleman not said here					surprised property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	a nobleman not said here	a beautiful elder bush					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bush=Stimulus
4	grow out	gerund	a beautiful elder bush not said here	the ditch					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ditch=Theme
5	go up	past	nobleman		ditch				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	cut off	infinitive	nobleman not said here	a branch					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector branch=Eventuality
7	make	past		a flute	nobleman	ditch			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary flute=Product
8	begin	past							vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	play	gerund						upon ditch	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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