Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 122
Then the horse-dealers came together and began to bargain for it. "
Who acts: horse dealers · What happens: come together, begin, bargain
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 (horse dealers), 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 | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dealers | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dealers | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 horse | punct |
| 5 | dealers | dealer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bargain | mark |
| 11 | bargain | bargain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bargain | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come together | past | the horse dealers | then | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the horse dealers not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | bargain | to-infinitive | the horse dealers not said here | for horse | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: 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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