Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 177

So he cut down such an oak as his wife had told him of, and she built a hut of the oak, for the overseer had come and shown them a place where they might build their hut.

Who acts: man, nobleman, overseer, wife · What happens: cut down, tell, build, come, show · To what, where: oak, wife, man, hut · 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 (man, nobleman, overseer, wife), 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 cut	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 cut	compound:prt
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 oak	det:predet
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 oak	det
7	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 told	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cut	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	of	of	ADP	_	12 told	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 built	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 built	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 built	nsubj
18	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hut	det
20	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 built	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 oak	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 oak	det
23	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hut	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 come	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 overseer	det
27	overseer	overseer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 come	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 come	aux
29	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 built	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 shown	cc
31	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 come	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 shown	obj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 place	det
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shown	obj
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 build	advmod
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 build	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 build	aux
38	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 place	acl:relcl
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hut	nmod:poss
40	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 build	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	cut down	past	man	such oak		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Product
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		man's wife	man	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
3	build	past	nobleman	a hut of the oak		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Product
4	come	past · perfect	the overseer			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	show	participle	the overseer not said here	wife		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient place=Topic
6	build	might	wife	wife's hut		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product

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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