Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 19

So his father and mother grieved over him for many a long day, and at last his mother said to his father, "What is to be done with our son?

Who acts: father, last · What happens: grieve, say, do · To what, where: father · 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, last), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 grieved	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grieved	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 mother	cc
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 father	conj
6	grieved	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grieved	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	13 day	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	nsubj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 day	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grieved	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	nsubj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 last	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grieved	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 father	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 done	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 done	punct
26	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 done	obj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 done	aux:pass
28	to	to	PART	_	30 done	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 done	aux:pass
30	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 said	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 son	case
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 son	nmod:poss
33	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 done	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	past	Latin's father and mother		day	over Latin	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: ask	past	last	Latin's father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient
3	do in a quote	present · passive	last not said here			with our son	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality

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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