Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 36

Then the father gave the flute to his brothers to play upon, but they wouldn't. "

Who acts: father · What happens: give, play · To what, where: flute

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	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 gave	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 brothers	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brothers	nmod:poss
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 play	mark
11	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gave	advcl
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 play	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 would	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 would	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 would	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	iobj
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 would	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the father	the flute			then	to father's brothers	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent would=Recipient flute=Theme
2	play	to-infinitive	the father not said here						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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