Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 147

Then they sold it to him for the gold pieces, and when he had bought it and they had departed, he kindled fire and burnt the incense, and offered it up to God as a sweet-smelling sacrifice.

Who acts: wares, brother · What happens: sell, buy, depart, kindle, burnt, offer up · To what, where: incense, brother, fire, God

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 (wares, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sold	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sold	nsubj
3	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sold	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sold	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 pieces	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pieces	det
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pieces	compound
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sold	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bought	cc
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 bought	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bought	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bought	aux
16	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sold	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bought	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 departed	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 departed	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 departed	aux
21	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 bought	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kindled	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 kindled	nsubj
24	kindled	kindle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sold	parataxis
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kindled	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 burnt	cc
27	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 kindled	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 incense	det
29	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 burnt	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 offered	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 offered	cc
32	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sold	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 offered	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 offered	compound:prt
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 God	case
36	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 offered	obl
37	as	as	ADP	_	42 sacrifice	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 sacrifice	det
39	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 smelling	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 sweet	punct
41	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 sacrifice	amod
42	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 offered	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	wares = ware	incense	brother	then	for the gold pieces	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient for piece=Asset
2	buy	past · perfect	brother	incense				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	depart	past · perfect	wares = ware					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	kindle	past	brother	fire				vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient
5	burnt	past	brother not said here	the incense				tree rules
6	offer up	past	wares = ware not said here	incense	God		as a smelling sacrifice	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to god=Goal
7	smell	gerund						vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=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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