Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 28

Then the father took the flute and tried his hand at it, and it sang:

Who acts: father, flute · What happens: take, try, sing · To what, where: flute, hand

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, flute), 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 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flute	det
6	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tried	cc
8	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tried	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tried	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sang	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sang	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sang	nsubj
16	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	the father	the flute		then	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme
2	try	past	the father not said here	father's hand	flute		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality
3	sing speech: express	past	flute				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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