Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 116

Then the young nobles sent the falcon after another quail, and it flew and flew till it beat down its prey; but then he became a youth again, and went on with his father.

Who acts: young nobles, quail, son · What happens: send, fly, beat down, become, go on · To what, where: falcon, prey, youth

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 (young nobles, quail, son), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sent	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nobles	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nobles	amod
4	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 falcon	det
7	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obj
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 quail	case
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 quail	det
10	quail	quail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flew	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flew	cc
16	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 flew	conj
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 beat	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 beat	nsubj
19	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 flew	ccomp
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 beat	compound:prt
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 prey	nmod:poss
22	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beat	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 became	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 became	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 became	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 became	nsubj
27	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 youth	det
29	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 became	xcomp
30	again	again	ADV	_	27 became	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 went	cc
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 became	conj
34	on	on	ADV	_	33 went	advmod
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 father	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 father	nmod:poss
37	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the young nobles	the falcon	after another quail; then		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falcon=Theme
2	fly	past	quail				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fly	past	quail not said here				tree rules
4	beat down	past	quail	quail's prey			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prey=Theme
5	become	past	son	a youth	then; again		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	go on	past	son not said here			with son's father	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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