Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 145

He asked them concerning their wares, and they said they were carrying a load of incense.

Who acts: brother, wares · What happens: ask, concern, say, carry · To what, where: people, wares, load · Speech: someone speaks here

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, wares), 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	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	obj
4	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 asked	advcl
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wares	nmod:poss
6	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 concerning	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carrying	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 carrying	aux
13	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 load	det
15	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carrying	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 incense	case
17	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 load	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	brother		people	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	concern	gerund	brother not said here	people's wares		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ware=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	wares = ware			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	carry	past · progressive	wares = ware	a load of incense		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=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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