Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 74

So he went the way they had told him, and he went on and on till he came to a little town, and there the roadside sentries stopped him. "

Who acts: man, way, roadside sentries · What happens: go, tell, come, stop · To what, where: way, feet, man, little town · 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 (man, way, roadside sentries), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 way	acl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	on	on	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 on	cc
16	on	on	ADV	_	14 on	conj
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 town	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 town	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 town	amod
23	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stopped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stopped	cc
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 stopped	expl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sentries	det
28	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sentries	compound
29	sentries	sentry	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stopped	nsubj
30	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stopped	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	man	the way			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive	the way not said here	feet = foot	man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
3	go	past	man				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	man			a little town	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
5	stop	past	the roadside sentries	man		there	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality

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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