Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 164
So he went back to the angel and asked for a good wife.
Who acts: brother · What happens: go back, ask
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), 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 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 angel | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 angel | det |
| 7 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wife | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wife | amod |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | brother | to the angel result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to angel=Result | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | brother not said here | for a good wife | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP 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.
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