Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 159
So he went to the second brother, who was ploughing a little farther on.
Who acts: brother, second brother · What happens: go, plough
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, second 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 brother | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brother | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 brother | amod |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ploughing | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 ploughing | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ploughing | aux |
| 11 | ploughing | plough | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 brother | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 little | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 farther | obl |
| 14 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 on | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 ploughing | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | brother | to the second brother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | plough | past · progressive | the second brother | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/19/159/