Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 24
His father then gave him a sound drubbing and sent him to a cobbler's to learn cobbling, but again he ran away home.
Who acts: father, last · What happens: give, send, learn, run away · To what, where: sound drubbing, last, cobbler, cobbling
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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 drubbing | det |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drubbing | compound |
| 8 | drubbing | drubbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sent | cc |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 cobbler | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cobbler | det |
| 14 | cobbler | cobbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obl |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 cobbler | case |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 learn | mark |
| 17 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sent | advcl |
| 18 | cobbling | cobbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 learn | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ran | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 ran | cc |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ran | nsubj |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | last's father | a sound drubbing | last | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient drubbing=Theme | ||
| 2 | send | past | last's father not said here | last | a cobbler | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to cobbler=Destination | |||
| 3 | learn | to-infinitive | last's father not said here | cobbling | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cobbling=Topic | ||||
| 4 | run away | past | last | again | away, home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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