Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 45

The brick-burners came forth to meet him, and were amazed to see a naked man. "

Who acts: brick burners · What happens: come, meet, see · To what, where: stag, naked man

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 (brick burners), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 burners	det
2	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burners	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 brick	punct
4	burners	burner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	forth	forth	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 meet	mark
8	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 meet	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 amazed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 amazed	cc
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 amazed	aux:pass
13	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 amazed	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the brick burners		forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	to-infinitive	the brick burners not said here	stag		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	see	to-infinitive	the brick burners not said here	a naked man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus

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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