Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 62

They gave him to eat and to drink.

Who acts: feet · What happens: give, eat, drink · To what, where: 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 (feet), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 drink	cc
7	to	to	PART	_	8 drink	mark
8	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 eat	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	give	past	feet = foot	man	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	feet = foot not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	to-infinitive	feet = foot 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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