Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 63
They also gave him ragged hose and a tattered shirt, for they were very poor people.
Who acts: feet · What happens: give, tatter, be · To what, where: ragged hose, 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 | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hose | amod |
| 6 | hose | hose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shirt | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shirt | det |
| 9 | tattered | tatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 shirt | amod |
| 10 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hose | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 people | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 people | case |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 people | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 people | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 poor | advmod |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | iobj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | feet = foot | ragged hose and a tattered shirt | man | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tatter | participle | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | feet = foot | for poor people | tree rules |
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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