Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 133
This youngest brother came to a strange land, and hired himself out to a husbandman for three gold pieces a year.
Who acts: youngest brother · What happens: come, hire out · To what, where: strange land, brother
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 (youngest brother), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 7 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 land | amod |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hired | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hired | cc |
| 11 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 hired | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 hired | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 husbandman | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 husbandman | det |
| 16 | husbandman | husbandman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hired | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 pieces | case |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 pieces | nummod |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pieces | compound |
| 20 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hired | obl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 year | det |
| 22 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pieces | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | this youngest brother | a strange land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | hire out | past | this youngest brother not said here | brother | to a husbandman; for three gold pieces a year | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent himself=Theme for piece=Beneficiary |
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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