Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 109

They went into the plain, and there were some young noblemen casting their falcon at a quail.

Who acts: falcons, young noblemen · What happens: go, be, cast · To what, where: plain, falcon

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 (falcons, young noblemen), 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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 plain	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plain	det
5	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 were	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 were	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 noblemen	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 noblemen	amod
12	noblemen	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
13	casting	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 noblemen	acl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 falcon	nmod:poss
15	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 casting	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 quail	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 quail	det
18	quail	quail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 casting	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	falcons = falcon		the plain		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into plain=Initial_Location
2	be	past	some young noblemen		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cast	gerund	some young noblemen not said here	falcons's falcon		at a quail	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent falcon=Theme at quail=Destination

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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