Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 71

The people here, too, treated him kindly, and seeing that his feet were lame and bruised, they had compassion upon him, and gave him a pair of very, very old boots.

Who acts: feet · What happens: treat, see, be, bruise, have, give · To what, where: man, compassion, pair · 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 here	nsubj
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 too	punct
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 here	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 treated	punct
7	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 here	parataxis
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 treated	obj
9	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	7 treated	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
12	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 had	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 lame	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feet	nmod:poss
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lame	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lame	cop
17	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seeing	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bruised	cc
19	bruised	bruise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 lame	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seeing	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 here	parataxis
23	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gave	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gave	cc
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 here	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gave	iobj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pair	det
31	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	37 boots	case
33	very	very	ADV	_	37 boots	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 boots	punct
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 old	advmod
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 boots	amod
37	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pair	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	treat	past			man	kindly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	see	gerund	feet = foot not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	man's feet			lame property	tree rules
4	bruise	participle	man's feet not said here				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	have	past	feet = foot	compassion		upon man	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=Patient
6	give	past		a pair of old boots	man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pair=Theme

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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