Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 82

Shortly after they came to examine him, and asked him, "Whence art thou?"--"From such and such a capital," said he.

Who acts: sentries, such capital · What happens: come, examine, ask, say · To what, where: passport · 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 (sentries, such capital), 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	Shortly	shortly	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 examine	mark
6	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 examine	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 art	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 art	punct
14	Whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	15 art	advmod
15	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	ccomp
16	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 art	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 art	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 art	punct
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 capital	punct
21	From	from	ADP	_	26 capital	case
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 capital	amod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 capital	cc
24	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	26 capital	det:predet
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 capital	det
26	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 capital	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 capital	punct
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	parataxis
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	sentries = sentry			shortly property	tree rules
2	examine	to-infinitive	sentries = sentry not said here	passport			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	sentries = sentry not said here		passport		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	such such capital				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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