Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 25

His father gave him another drubbing and sent him to a blacksmith to learn smith's work.

Who acts: father, smith · What happens: give, send, learn, work · To what, where: drubbing, last, blacksmith, work

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, smith), 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	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 drubbing	det
6	drubbing	drubbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sent	cc
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sent	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 blacksmith	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 blacksmith	det
12	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 learn	mark
14	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sent	advcl
15	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 work	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 smith	case
17	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 learn	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	past	last's father	another drubbing	last		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 blacksmith	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to blacksmith=Destination
3	learn	to-infinitive	last's father not said here	smith's work			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic
4	work		smith				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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