Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 135

The first thing he now did was to go to a spring, and into this spring he threw three of his gold pieces. "

Who acts: brother, first thing · What happens: do, be, throw · To what, where: first thing, three

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 (brother, first thing), 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	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	nsubj:outer
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	nsubj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 did	advmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 go	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 spring	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 spring	det
12	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 threw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 threw	cc
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 spring	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 spring	det
17	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 threw	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 threw	nsubj
19	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 go	parataxis
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 threw	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 pieces	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 pieces	nmod:poss
23	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pieces	compound
24	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 three	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	brother	the first thing not said here	now		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	is	past	the first thing		spring	go property	tree rules
3	throw	past	brother	three of brother's gold pieces	spring		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=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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