Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 132

There were once upon a time four brethren, and three of them remained at home, while the fourth went out to seek for work.

Who acts: three, fourth · What happens: be, remain, go out, seek · To what, where: home

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 (three, fourth), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 were	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	obl
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 time	conj
8	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 four	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 remained	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 remained	cc
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 remained	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 three	nmod
14	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 were	parataxis
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 home	case
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remained	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 went	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fourth	det
20	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 remained	conj
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 seek	mark
24	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 went	xcomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 work	case
26	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seek	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past		there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	remain	participle	three of IVAN	home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
3	go out	past	the fourth			out property	tree rules
4	seek	to-infinitive	the fourth not said here			for work	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for work=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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