Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 105

They went on and on, and his father said to him, "What use is this money to us after all?

Who acts: father, money · What happens: go, say, be · To what, where: dog, use, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg29672:114): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 on	cc
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 on	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 use	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 use	punct
15	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	16 use	det
16	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 use	cop
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 money	det
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 use	nsubj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 us	case
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 use	obl
22	after	after	ADV	_	16 use	advmod
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 after	fixed
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	father				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	dog's father		dog		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present	this money	what use	us	after property	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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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