Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 49

The brick-burners had pity on him; they gave him an old tattered garment to wear and a piece of black bread and a gherkin to eat.

Who acts: brick burners, burners · What happens: have, give, tatter, wear, eat · To what, where: pity, old tattered garment, body

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, 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 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	iobj
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 garment	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 garment	amod
15	tattered	tatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 garment	amod
16	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 wear	mark
18	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 garment	acl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 piece	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 piece	det
21	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 garment	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 bread	case
23	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bread	amod
24	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 piece	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gherkin	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 gherkin	det
27	gherkin	gherkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 garment	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 eat	mark
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 gherkin	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the brick burners	pity		on body	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
2	give	past	burners = burner	a old tattered garment and a piece of black bread and a gherkin	body		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient garment=Theme
3	tatter	participle					vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	wear	to-infinitive	burners = burner not said here	a old tattered garment and a piece of black bread and a gherkin not said here			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
5	eat	to-infinitive	burners = burner not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «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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