Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 32

The father was so astonished that he bought it, and took it home, and gave it to the mother for her to play upon it, and it sang:

Who acts: father, heart · What happens: be, buy, take, give, play, sing · To what, where: heart, mother

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, heart), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 astonished	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 astonished	advmod
5	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 bought	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bought	nsubj
8	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bought	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	obj
14	home	home	ADV	_	12 took	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 mother	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mother	det
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 play	mark
25	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 gave	advcl
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 play	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sang	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sang	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sang	nsubj
31	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the father			astonished property	tree rules
2	buy	past	father	heart			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	take	past		heart		home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	give	past		heart	the mother	for body	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mother=Recipient for she=Asset
5	play	to-infinitive				upon heart	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sing speech: express	past	heart				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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