Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 105

He was now so mild and gracious, nor did he spend all his days in the forest, but went about inquiring of his people if any were wronged or injured by their neighbours, and if justice were done.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, spend, go, inquire, wrong, injure · To what, where: forest, any, justice

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mild	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mild	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 mild	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 mild	advmod
5	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gracious	cc
7	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mild	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spend	punct
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 spend	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 spend	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spend	nsubj
12	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mild	parataxis
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 days	det:predet
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 days	nmod:poss
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 spend	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 forest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 forest	det
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spend	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 spend	advcl
22	about	about	SCONJ	_	23 inquiring	mark
23	inquiring	inquire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 went	advcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 people	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 people	nmod:poss
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 inquiring	obl
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 wronged	mark
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 wronged	nsubj:pass
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wronged	aux:pass
30	wronged	wrong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 inquiring	advcl
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 injured	cc
32	injured	injure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 wronged	conj
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 neighbours	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 neighbours	nmod:poss
35	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 injured	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 done	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 done	cc
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 done	mark
39	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 done	nsubj:pass
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 done	aux:pass
41	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 spend	parataxis
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mild	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	man			now	mild property	tree rules
2	be		man not said here					tree rules
3	spend	past · do-support	man		the forest	day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	man not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	inquire speech: other	gerund	man not said here				of man's people	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of people=Recipient
6	wrong a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		any				tree rules
7	injure	participle					by people's neighbours	tree rules
8	do a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		justice				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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