Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 22

So his father and mother laid their heads together, and sent him to a tailor's to learn tailoring.

Who acts: father · What happens: lay, send, learn · To what, where: heads, last, tailor, tailoring

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), 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 laid	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 laid	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 mother	cc
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 father	conj
6	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heads	nmod:poss
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laid	obj
9	together	together	ADV	_	6 laid	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sent	cc
12	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laid	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sent	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 tailor	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tailor	det
16	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obl
17	's	's	PART	_	16 tailor	case
18	to	to	PART	_	19 learn	mark
19	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sent	advcl
20	tailoring	tailoring	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 learn	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lay	past	last's father and mother	father's heads		together property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Result
2	send	past	last's father and mother not said here	last	a tailor		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to tailor=Destination
3	learn	to-infinitive	last's father and mother not said here	tailoring			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tailoring=Topic

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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