Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 160

He asked him the same question, but the man only shrugged his shoulders and said he didn't know either.

Who acts: brother, man · What happens: ask, shrug, say, not know · To what, where: same question, body, shoulders · 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, man), 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	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 question	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 question	amod
6	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shrugged	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 shrugged	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shrugged	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 shrugged	advmod
12	shrugged	shrug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shoulders	nmod:poss
14	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shrugged	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shrugged	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 know	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 know	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 know	advmod
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
21	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 know	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	brother	the same question	body		tree rules
2	shrug	past	the man	brother's shoulders			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the man not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not know	past · do-support	brother			either property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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